THE

CONSECRATION OF A BISHOP,

ACCORDING TO THE

ROMAN PONTIFICAL.

With an Appendix.
Translated and Edited by

THE REV. JOSEPH HENRY MCMAHON,
Director of the Cathedral Library of New York.

The Cathedral Library Association,
24-26 E. 21st Street, New York

1922

APPROBATIO.

Revisione rite peracta, hanc editionem novissimo exemplari typico Pontificalis Romani esse conformem testamur. In fidem, etc.

Neo-Eboraci ex ædibus Archiepiscopalibus hac die 30 Martii 1892.

Pro Illme et Revo MICHAELE AUGUSTINO, Archiepiscopo. Gherardus Ferrante,

Substitutus.

Michael Augustinus Corrigan.

DEI ET APOSTOLICA SEDIS

GRATIA ARCHIEPISCOPUS NEO-EBORACENSIS, SS. Dd. praeLATUS DOMESTICUS, SOLIO PONTIFICIO ASSISTENS.

PUS quod inscribitur "Ordo Consecrationis Electi
in Episcopum cum appendice," cura et expensis
Bibliothecæ Cathedralis imprimi potest et evulgari.
Datum Neo-Eboraci, die 30 Martii 1892.

Michael Augustinus,
Archiepiscopus Neo-Ebor.

DECRETUM.

Q

UUM Cæremoniarum Magister Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Neo Eboracensis Dioceseos in Statibus Fœderatis America Septentrionalis de consensu Episcopi a Sacra Rituum Congregatione declarari petierit:

"Utrum pro majori Fidelium utilitate, qui linguam "latinam non callent, licitum sit addere versionem "in lingua vulgari textui latino Pontificalis Romani, "et præsertim illi parti, quæ Ordinum collationem "respicit. uti exhibetur in exemplari cui titulus."Ritus Ordinationum juxta Pontificale Romanum.— "Curante Rev. J. S. M. Lynch in Seminario Pro“vinciali apud Trojam, N. Y. Sacræ Liturgiæ Pro"fessore, etc., etc."

Sacra eadem Congregatio, referente subscribto Secretario ita rescripsit:-Detur Decretum in una Neo Eboracen., diei 4 Augusti 1877. Atque ita rescripsit die 3 Februarii 1879.

D. CARDINALIS BARTOLINIUS,

PLAC. RALLI, S. R. C. Secrius.

S. R. C.

Præfectus

DECREE.

WHEN, with the consent of his Ordinary, the

master of ceremonies at the Cathedral Church of the diocese of New York, United States of America, petitioned the Sacred Congregation of Rites to declare "whether for the greater benefit of the faithful who do not understand the Latin Text of the Roman Pontifical; in particular to that part which treats of the conferring of Orders, as has been done in a volume entitled "The Rite of Ordination," according to the Roman Pontifical, by Rev. J. S. M. Lynch, Professor of Sacred Liturgy in the Provincial Seminary, at Troy, N. Y., etc., etc. The Sacred Congregation, through the undersigned secretary answered, on Feb. 3d, 1879, as follows: Let the Decree of Aug. 4th, 1877, in a case proposed by New York, stand.

CARDINAL BARTOLINI,

Prefect. MONS. PLACIDIO RALLI, Secretary of the S. C. R.