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Can. 463 §1. The following must be called to a diocesan synod as members of the synod and are obliged to participate in it: 1/ a coadjutor bishop and auxiliary bishops; 2/ vicars general, episcopal vicars, and the judicial vicar; 3/ canons of the cathedral church; 4/ members of the presbyteral council;
In the Roman Catholic Church, a judicial vicar or episcopal official (Latin: officialis) is an officer of the diocese who has ordinary power to judge cases in the diocesan ecclesiastical court. Although the diocesan bishop can reserve certain cases to himself, the judicial vicar and the diocesan bishop are a single tribunal, which means that ...
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Jan 10, 2018 · 1/10/18. Father Robert J. Rippy (front right) is the judicial vicar for the Diocese of Arlington. Just as the United States has a judiciary branch, so too every diocese has a judicial arm. It’s headed by the bishop, who typically designates a judicial vicar to oversee it.
Pope Paul VI appointed him Auxiliary Bishop of New Orleans where he was ordained on June 29, 1976 at St. Louis Cathedral. He served for more than six years as archdiocesan Vicar General. Bishop Ott was named third Bishop of Baton Rouge on January 18, 1983 by Pope John Paul II, and installed on March 25, 1983. He was welcomed back to Baton Rouge ...
Canon 1420 of the Code of Canon Law reads in part: §1. Each diocesan bishop is bound to appoint a judicial vicar, or officialis, with ordinary power to judge, distinct from the vicar general unless the small size of the diocese or the small number of cases suggests otherwise. §2. The judicial vicar constitutes one tribunal with the bishop but ...
Apr 5, 2014 · Father Greg Luyet, a native of North Little Rock, is now the judicial vicar for the Diocese of Little Rock. Thinking back on what attracted him to canon law — and as of Dec. 1, the role of judicial vicar for the Diocese of Little Rock — Father Greg Luyet recalled he was baptized by a canon lawyer, grew up in a parish with a canon lawyer for ...
Functions. Since practically all the cases before a diocesan tribunal today are marriage cases, the work of the judicial vicar is to prepare, study, and judge pleas for nullity brought before the court on any of the grounds described in church law for such a nullity plea.
