Can. 833 The following are personally bound to make a profession of faith, according to
the formula approved by the Apostolic See:
1 in the presence of the president or his delegate: all who, with a deliberative or a
consultative vote, take part in an Ecumenical Council, a particular council, the synod of
Bishops, or a diocesan synod; in the presence of the council or synod: the president
himself ;
2 in accordance with the statutes of the sacred College: those promoted to the
dignity of Cardinal;
3 in the presence of a delegate of the Apostolic See: all who are promoted to the
episcopate, and all those who are equivalent to a diocesan Bishop;
4 in the presence of the college of consultors: the diocesan Administrator;
5 in the presence of the diocesan Bishop or his delegate: Vicars general, episcopal
Vicars and judicial Vicars;
6 in the presence of the local Ordinary or his delegate: parish priests; the rector,
professors of theology and philosophy in seminaries, at the beginning of their term of
office; and those who are to be promoted to the order of diaconate;
7 in the presence of the Chancellor or, in the absence of the Chancellor, the local
Ordinary, or the delegates of either: the rector of an ecclesiastical or catholic
university, at the beginning of the term of office in the presence of the rector if he
is a priest, or of the local Ordinary or the delegates of either: those who in any
universities teach subjects which deal with faith or morals, at the beginning of their
term of office;
8 in accordance with the constitutions: Superiors in religious institutes and
clerical societies of apostolic life.