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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as dimissory letter (which see, under dimissory).

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Examples

  • Spain, Flanders, or elsewhere, the junior students were promoted to orders ad titulum missionis in Hiberniâ, even extra tempora, and without dimissorial letters, on the representation of the rector of the college — a privilege withdrawn, as regards dimissorial letters, by Gregory XVI in 1835, and now entirely abrogated by transfer of

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • The Roman pontiff can ordain anyone without letters from his bishop, and the person so ordained cannot later be promoted to higher orders without papal licence Although dimissorial letters be required for ordaining the subject of one bishop in another diocese, yet it does seem necessary to obtain them for the purpose of receiving a benefice in the other diocese, though it is considered proper and expedient.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • Even without belonging to an exempt congregation, the superior, if a priest, obtains without difficulty the faculty of giving his subjects dimissorial letters for ordinations; and if such faculty is granted him, then, in respect of the certificates to be delivered, the competent bishop etc., the rules are the same for congregations as for religious orders.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • Council of Trent; nor promote secular clerics to orders, nor grant dimissorial letters for ordination, nor exercise jurisdiction over regulars as Apostolic delegates.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • Except in the case of some particular privilege, the dimissorial letters should be sent to the bishop of the place in which the convent is situated, and regulars can only apply to another bishop in case the former does not hold his usual ordinations, or if he consents to waive his right.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • Metropolitan See of Braga should not be altered; that bishops should take rank after the metropolitan according to the date of their consecration; that bishops should not ordain candidates from other dioceses without dimissorial letters from their bishop; that nothing should be sung in the church but the Psalms and parts of the Old and

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • Tridentine faculties of dispensation and suspension, to concede dimissorial letters for receiving orders.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • By the law of the Church Abbots may grant letters dimissorial to their regular subjects, authorizing and recommending them for ordination, but they cannot give dimissorials to seculars without incurring suspension.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • Congregation of Propaganda, and the students were ordained with dimissorial letters issued by the cardinal protector.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • Except mitred abbots, who confer the tonsure and minor orders on their inferiors, regular superiors must apply to the bishop for the ordination of their subjects: for this purpose they give dimissorial letters, by which they present their subjects to the bishop with the necessary certificates, to receive Holy orders from him.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

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