Administrator diosesan

Administrator diosesan adalah ordinaris wilayah tertentu dalam Gereja Katolik Roma. Umumnya administrator diosesan terpilih saat tahta suatu keuskupan mengalami kelowongan, dan tidak ada administrator apostolik yang ditunjuk untuk mengisi tahta keuskupan tersebut.

Hukum Kanonik

Kitab Hukum Kanonik menjelaskan bahwa Dewan Konsultores suatu wilayah gerejawi memilih seorang administrator dalam delapan hari setelah tahta mengalami kelowongan. Dewan perlu memilih seorang administrator yang merupakan seorang imam atau uskup yang berusia minimal 35 tahun. Para calon juga belum pernah dipilih, ditunjuk ataupun diajukan untuk menjadi administrator diosesan. Jika dewan tidak dapat memilih seorang imam dalam waktu yang ditentukan, pilihan administrator diosesan beralih ke uskup agung metropolit, atau jika tahta metropolit sedang lowong, maka uskup suffragan yang senior menurut waktu pengangkatan di dalam provinsi gerejawi tersebut.

If a diocese has a coadjutor bishop, the coadjutor succeeds immediately to the episcopal see upon the previous bishop's death or resignation, and there is no vacancy of the see. The see also does not become vacant if the Pope appoints an apostolic administrator.

Before the election of the diocesan administrator of a vacant see, the governance of the see is entrusted, with the powers of a vicar general, to the auxiliary bishop, if there is one, or to the senior among them, if there are several, otherwise to the college of consultors as a whole. The diocesan administrator has greater powers, essentially those of a bishop except for matters excepted by the nature of the matter or expressly by law. Canon law subjects his activity to various legal restrictions and to special supervision by the college of consultors (as for example canons 272 and 485). The diocesan administrator remains in charge until a new bishop takes possession of the see or until he presents his resignation to the college of consultors.

Some Bishops ruled more than one bishopric for long. In any beside their primary bishopric, they would have to be called an administrator. Nevertheless, in local tradition often they are called bishops in all their bishoprics.

An episcopal conference can transfer the functions of the consultors to the cathedral chapter. In those countries in which the episcopal conference has transferred the functions, the cathedral chapter, and not the consultors, elect the diocesan administrator. Capitular election was the default rule before the adoption of the 1983 Code of Canon Law; this old default rule is reflected in the term for the equivalent of a diocesan administrator in the 1917 code: vicar capitular.