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A vicar forane is to be appointed for a certain period of time determined by particular law. §3. The diocesan bishop can freely remove a vicar forane from office for a just cause in accord with his own prudent judgment.
A Vicar Forane, who is also called a dean or an archpriest or some other name, is a priest who is placed over a vicariate forane (Can. 553, 1). Canon 374 requires that a diocese be divided into parishes, and it permits parishes in a certain vicinity to be grouped together in a vicariate forane or a deanery to promote better pastoral care.
An experienced priest appointed by a bishop to exercise limited jurisdiction over a specific part of a diocese. He is charged with the care of the sick clergy, presides at conferences,...
Unlike a regional Episcopal vicar, a vicar forane acts as a help for the parish priests and other priests in the vicariate forane, rather than as an intermediate authority between them and the diocesan bishop.
The vicar forane makes sure that sacred functions are carried out according to established liturgical directives, and that the Blessed Sacrament is properly reserved in the churches of the vicariate. In many dioceses, where the vicar forane is an ex officio member of the Board of Diocesan Consultors, he is to be called to a diocesan synod (c ...
If there is none or he is impeded, governance passes to an auxiliary bishop, the vicar general, an episcopal vicar, or another priest, following the order of persons established in the list which the diocesan bishop is to draw up as soon as possible after taking possession of the diocese.
