Ordination

1. Each year the prior provincial, prior vice-provincial and vicar general shall send their financial reports directly to the Master of the Order. Each year, the Prior Provincial shall send a report to the Master of the Order drawn up by the Syndic of the same Province in the same way set down in No. 566 above, and already approved by the Provincial Council.
2. Furthermore, each year the prior provincial, prior vice-provincial, and vicar general shall send  their economic reports directly to the Master of the Order.

The electors are the brothers having active voice who are assigned to convents of the vicariate directly or indirectly by reason of office.

Where the conditions for a regional vicariate indicated in n. 384 above are lacking, a provincial chapter has power to establish a provincial vicariate and to draw up a special statute for it. If there are at least ten voters, they have the right to elect a vicar provincial; otherwise, having consulted the brothers, a vicar provincial shall be appointed by the prior provincial.

1. The regional prior has charge of the vicariate as the vicar of the prior provincial and has, in addition to the faculties granted by the provincial chapter, the right:
   1. to assign brothers who are in the vicariate, without prejudice to the rights of the prior provincial;
   2. to confirm a conventual prior as provided for in n. 467 and to appoint superiors of houses as provided for in n. 332, unless the vicariate statute provides otherwise;
   3. to participate by right of office in the provincial council, unless something different has been laid down in the pro­vincial statute;
   4. to participate by right of office in a provincial chapter – see 352, § I, 1. (P, n. 494; K, n.372)
2.  
   1. The regional prior is elected for four years by the voters assigned in the region vicariate and is confirmed by the prior provincial with the consent of his council;
   2. when the time for which the regional prior was elected has expired or when for any reason whatsoever he has ceased to hold office, until a successor has been confirmed his office shall be held by the prior who has spent the longest time in the Order in the same vicariate;
   3. what has been laid down for a conventual prior in n. 302, § I, holds for a regional prior, mutatis mutandis. 

1. The regional prior has charge of the vicariate as the vicar of the prior provincial and has, in addition to the faculties granted by the provincial chapter, the right:
   1. to assign brothers who are in the vicariate, without prejudice to the rights of the prior provincial;
   2. to confirm a conventual prior as provided for in n. 467 and to appoint superiors of houses as provided for in n. 332, unless the vicariate statute provides otherwise;
   3. to participate by right of office in the provincial council, unless something different has been laid down in the pro­vincial statute;
   4. to participate by right of office in a provincial chapter – see 352, § I, 1. (P, n. 494; K, n.372)
2.  
   1. The regional prior is elected for four years by the voters assigned to the convents of the vicariate and is confirmed by the prior provincial with the consent of his council;
   2. when the time for which the regional prior was elected has expired or when for any reason whatsoever he has ceased to hold office, until a successor has been confirmed his office shall be held by the prior who has spent the longest time in the Order in the same vicariate;
   3. what has been laid down for a conventual prior in n. 302, § I, holds for a regional prior, mutatis mutandis. 

Among other things, the following must be dealt with in the provincial council:

1. the appointment or removal of a regional prior and of a conventual prior;
2. the presentation or removal of a pastor, after consulta­tion with the chapter of the community to which the parish is entrusted;
3. the erection of a house as a convent, in accordance with n. 262;
4. the cassation of a decision of a conventual chapter or council, councillors assigned to that convent being excluded from taking part in the cassation;
5. the transfiliation of a brother;
6. temporarily excluding a brother from active voting rights for a grave reason;
7. a declaration of the fact for the dismissal of a brother in accordance with common law (CCL 694, § 2). 

1. A general chapter or the Master of the Order may freely assign brothers to any province or convent.
2. A provincial chapter or a prior provincial may make assignations within their own province.
3. A provincial chapter or a prior provincial may assign a brother from another province to theirs, with the consent of the provincial chapter or of the prior provincial of the province of affiliation, the Master of the Order having been informed.
4. A brother who in accordance with § I or § III has been assigned to a province also needs to be assigned to a specific convent.
5. Direct or indirect assignations by reason of study must be made in writing (see Appendix, n. 12 13)

1. A general chapter or the Master of the Order may freely assign brothers to any province or convent.
2. A provincial chapter or a prior provincial may make assignations within their own province.
3. A provincial chapter or a prior provincial may assign a brother from another province to theirs, with the consent of the provincial chapter or of the prior provincial of the province of affiliation, the Master of the Order having been informed.
4. A brother who in accordance with § I or § III has been assigned to a province also needs to be assigned to a specific convent as soon as possible.
5. Direct or indirect assignations by reason of study must be made in writing (see Appendix, n. 13).

1. Superiors shall not admit a person to orders un­less, after careful inquiry, they are satisfied about his religious conduct (de moribus religiosis), his suitability for priestly office and his progress in study.
2. Superiors shall question each of those due for ordination and to receive from them a declaration written in his own hand and signed, cf. CIC 1036, in order to satisfy themselves that they freely and deliberately want to be ordained as religious (cf. CCL 1036).

The mastership in sacred theology is conferred on those brothers who are considered eminent in promoting sciences, especially the Sacred Sciences. Excellence of this kind is established by an ability to develop and sustain doctrinal reflection and research, as well as by the publication of works of exceptional value; it is also established by an authority in the scientific field already acquired, even outside the Order.