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Can. 515

§ 1. Superior generalis electione designetur ad normam statutorum.

§ 2. Ceteri Superiores ad normam statutorum designentur, ita tamen, ut, si eliguntur, confirmatione Superioris maioris competentis indigeant; si vero nominantur, apta consultatio praecedat.

§ 3. In electionibus sedulo serventur cann. 947 - 960 necnon can. 445.

Wording unchanged since the Code took effect in 1991.

Read the whole title TITULUS XIIDe Monachis Ceterisque Religiosis et de Sodalibus Aliorum Institutorum Vitae Consecratae 410–572