AUDIENTIA SANCTISSIMI

AUDIENTIA SANCTISSIMI. – When a favor, authorization, dispensation, etc., is requested from a Congregation or another dicastery of the Roman Curia which even the head of the Congregation or dicastery itself has no power to grant, he refers the matter to the Pope in an audience (usually in a scheduled audience: V. UDIENZE PONTIFICIE); and if the Pope orders or permits the granting of what has been requested, the favor, authorization, or dispensation is said to have been granted ex a. S.