MINISTER OF THE PONTIFICAL CHAPEL. - He is more properly called assistant minister at the sacred functions (v. Ann. Pont., 1951, p. 912). Besides the monsignor sacristan of His Holiness, there are numbered among these ministers (const. Pro pastoralis officii of Alexander VII, dated 10 Dec. 1655), with the specific title of sacred ministers at the Masses of the Pontifical Chapel, three canons of the patriarchal basilicas, namely the one of St. John Lateran, as assistant priest, the one of St. Peter's, as deacon, and the one of St. Mary Major, as subdeacon.
Two of the pontifical singers, when they were also chaplains of the Pope and apostolic subdeacons, ministered as deacon and subdeacon in the solemn Pontifical Mass of the Pope and in the other Masses celebrated by cardinals and bishops in the papal chapel; this, however, took place before the const. Nuper, certis ex causis of Alexander VII (26 Oct. 1655), since by this constitution the Pope entrusted the functions of apostolic subdeacon to the auditors of the Rota, formerly chaplains of the pope, and the functions of acolyte to the voting prelates of the Apostolic Signatura (cf. const. Ad incrementum decoris, of Pius XI, 15 Aug. 1934: AAS, 26 [1934], p. 497 ff.).
The common chaplains of His Holiness are also ministers of the pontifical chapel and servers in them, and there they exercise the office of acolytes and candle-bearers (v. FAMIGLIA PONTIFICIA).
Bibliography3 worksA. Adami, Osservaz. per regolare il coro della Cappella pontificia. Catalogo dei cantori da Paolo III a Clemente XI, Rome 1711; Moroni, Capp
BIBL.: A. Adami, Osservaz. per regolare il coro della Cappella pontificia. Catalogo dei cantori da Paolo III a Clemente XI, Rome 1711; Moroni, Cappelle pontifice, VIII, p. 143 ff.; T. Ortolan, Cour romaine, in DThC, III, 1960.
Felici, Guglielmo. “Ministro della Cappella Pontificia.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, coll. 1042–1043. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/ministro-della-cappella-pontificia.
MLA
Felici, Guglielmo. “Ministro della Cappella Pontificia.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, coll. 1042–1043. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/ministro-della-cappella-pontificia.
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@incollection{ec8_ministro_della_cappella_pontif,
author = {Felici, Guglielmo},
title = {Ministro della Cappella Pontificia},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VIII},
pages = {1042--1043},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1952},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/ministro-della-cappella-pontificia}
}
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