PROVINCIAL

The provincial is appointed by the Rector Major with the consent of his Council after wide consultation in the province concerned. He is a priest and perpetually professed for at least ten years. He exercises ordinary power over all the houses and members of the province in both the internal and the external forum, according to the norms of the Constitutions and of canon law. The provincial remains in office for six years. He is the competent superior for granting permission to the confreres to Publish writings of religious or moral content and to preach to the confreres in their churches or oratories.