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A diocesan administrator is a provisional ordinary
Ordinary

In those hierarchically organised churches of Western Christianity which have an ecclesiastical law system, an ordinary is an officer of the church who by reason of office has ordinary power to executive the church's laws....
 of a Roman Catholic particular church
Particular Church

In Catholic theology and Canon law , a particular Church is an ecclesial community headed by a bishop or someone recognized as the equivalent of a bishop....
. The administrator must be a priest at least 35 years old elected by the college of consultors within eight days after the see
Episcopal See

An episcopal see is, in the original sense, the official seat of a bishop. This seat, which is also referred to the bishop's cathedra, is placed in the bishop's principal church, which is therefore called the bishop's cathedral....
 is known to be vacant
Sede vacante

Sede vacante is an expression, used in the Canon law of the Roman Catholic Church, that refers to the vacancy of the episcopal see of a particular church....
. If the college of consultors fails to elect a priest of the required minimum age within the time allotted, the choice of diocesan administrator passes to the metropolitan archbishop or, if the metropolitan see is vacant, to the senior by appointment of the suffragan bishop
Suffragan bishop

A suffragan bishop is a bishop subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop....
s of the ecclesiastical province
Ecclesiastical Province

An ecclesiastical province is a large jurisdiction of religious government, so named by analogy with a secular province, existing in certain hierarchical Christian Christian Church, especially in the Catholic Church and Orthodox Church Churches and in the Anglican Communion....
.

If a diocese has a coadjutor bishop
Coadjutor bishop

A coadjutor bishop is a bishop in the Roman Catholic Church or Anglican Communion churches who is designated to assist the diocesan bishop in the administration of the diocese almost as co-bishop of the diocese....
, the coadjutor succeeds immediately to the episcopal see upon the previous bishop's death or resignation, and there is no vacancy of the see.






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A diocesan administrator is a provisional ordinary
Ordinary

In those hierarchically organised churches of Western Christianity which have an ecclesiastical law system, an ordinary is an officer of the church who by reason of office has ordinary power to executive the church's laws....
 of a Roman Catholic particular church
Particular Church

In Catholic theology and Canon law , a particular Church is an ecclesial community headed by a bishop or someone recognized as the equivalent of a bishop....
. The administrator must be a priest at least 35 years old elected by the college of consultors within eight days after the see
Episcopal See

An episcopal see is, in the original sense, the official seat of a bishop. This seat, which is also referred to the bishop's cathedra, is placed in the bishop's principal church, which is therefore called the bishop's cathedral....
 is known to be vacant
Sede vacante

Sede vacante is an expression, used in the Canon law of the Roman Catholic Church, that refers to the vacancy of the episcopal see of a particular church....
. If the college of consultors fails to elect a priest of the required minimum age within the time allotted, the choice of diocesan administrator passes to the metropolitan archbishop or, if the metropolitan see is vacant, to the senior by appointment of the suffragan bishop
Suffragan bishop

A suffragan bishop is a bishop subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop....
s of the ecclesiastical province
Ecclesiastical Province

An ecclesiastical province is a large jurisdiction of religious government, so named by analogy with a secular province, existing in certain hierarchical Christian Christian Church, especially in the Catholic Church and Orthodox Church Churches and in the Anglican Communion....
.

If a diocese has a coadjutor bishop
Coadjutor bishop

A coadjutor bishop is a bishop in the Roman Catholic Church or Anglican Communion churches who is designated to assist the diocesan bishop in the administration of the diocese almost as co-bishop of the diocese....
, the coadjutor succeeds immediately to the episcopal see upon the previous bishop's death or resignation, and there is no vacancy of the see. The see also does not become vacant if the Pope appoints an apostolic administrator
Apostolic Administrator

An apostolic administrator in the Roman Catholic Church is a prelate appointed by the Pope to serve as the ordinary for an apostolic administration....
.

Before the election of the diocesan administrator of a vacant see, the governance of the see is entrusted, with the powers of a vicar general
Vicar general

A vicar general is the principal deputy of the bishop of a diocese for the exercise of administrative authority. As vicar of the bishop, the vicar general exercises the bishop's ordinary executive over the entire diocese and, thus, is the highest official in a diocese or other particular church after the diocesan bishop....
, to the auxiliary bishop
Auxiliary bishop

An auxiliary bishop, in the Roman Catholic Church, is an additional Bishop assigned to a diocese because the diocesan bishop is unable to perform his functions, the diocese is so extensive that it requires more than one bishop to administer, or the diocese is attached to a royal or imperial office requiring the diocesan bishop's protracted p...
, if there is one, or to the senior among them, if there are several, otherwise to the college of consultors as a whole. The diocesan administrator has greater powers, essentially those of a bishop except for matters excepted by the nature of the matter or expressly by law. Canon law subjects his activity to various legal restrictions and to special supervision by the college of consultors (as for example canons 272 and 485). The diocesan administrator remains in charge until a new bishop takes possession of the see or until he presents his resignation to the college of consultors.

Before the 1983 Code of Canon Law, the term used for the priest carrying out the functions of a diocesan administrator was "vicar capitular". The rules concerning his election and his powers were also different; the vicar capitular was elected by the canon
Canon (priest)

A canon is a priest who is a member of certain bodies of the Christianity clergy subject to an ecclesiastical rule .Originally, a canon was a cleric living with others in a clergyhouse or, later, in one of the houses within the precinct or close of a cathedral and ordering his life according to the orders or rules of the church....
s of the cathedral chapter
Cathedral chapter

In accordance with canon law, a cathedral chapter is a body of clerics formed to advise a bishop and, in the case of a vacancy in the bishop?s seat, to govern the diocese in his stead....
, not the diocesan college of consultors.

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