1) admits postulants to the novitiate, dismisses unsuitable novices, and prolongs the novitiate; 2) admits novices to the profession of first vows and allows professed members to renew temporary vows or profess perpetual vows; 3) admits to ministries and to the reception of orders; 4) grants permission to live outside the community, but not for more than a year, except for reasons of studies, apostolic work, or illness (CIC, can. 665 § 1); 5) appoints the Provincial Secretary, Provincial Treasurer, Vocation Director, and Prefect of Formation; Novice Master, formators, and instructors in houses of studies; local Superiors and their Councilors and Treasurers; and he accepts their resignation from office (C 177; D 101, 197); 6) erects, transfers, or suppresses—for their own students—residences, schools, and religious dormitories (D 143); 7) accepts parishes and missions, even to nonCatholics, and relinquishes them, having previously obtained the consent of the diocesan bishop; 8) presents pastors and rectors of churches to the diocesan bishop for approval and recalls them (C 143, 144); 9) approves the reports on the administration of goods; 10) administers goods in accordance with D 276; 11) designates a provincial visitator who is not one of the Councilors (D 175); 12) designates the days and place of the Provincial Chapter and the Provincial Convention (C 271, 276). CM 696-699 Matters to Be Decided with the Consultative Vote of the Provincial Council 293The Provincial Superior, with the consultative vote of his Council: 1) admits candidates to the postulancy and dismisses from it those who are unsuitable; 2) appoints the director of postulants; Constitutions—Part VI 172
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