CÉLEBRÉT. - Certificate issued by the competent ecclesiastical authority, attesting that a priest may celebrate Mass. It states the holder's name, the date, the time limit, the diocesan or institute stamp with the signature of the Ordinary if the priest is secular, or of the superior if he is a religious. For a priest of the Eastern rite, an attestation from the S. Congregazione Orientale is sufficient.
There are two cases in which the parish priest or the rector of a church may authorize a passing priest to say Mass without the c.: 1) when the priest is known to him as of undoubted probity; 2) in the case of an unknown priest, he may permit the celebration once or twice only, provided that he wears ecclesiastical dress, does not receive an offering, and signs a special register, indicating his office and the diocese to which he belongs (can. 804).
Souarn, Romualdo. “Celebret.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, coll. 1251–1252. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/celebret.
MLA
Souarn, Romualdo. “Celebret.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, coll. 1251–1252. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/celebret.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec3_celebret,
author = {Souarn, Romualdo},
title = {Celebret},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {III},
pages = {1251--1252},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/celebret}
}
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