Second Council of Lyon

 C O N S T I T U T I O N S

 I

 II

 1. On the supreme Trinity and the catholic faith {5}

 2. On election and the power of the elected person {6}

 15. On the circumstances of ordination and the quality of ordinands

 16. On bigamists

 17. On the office of ordinary judge

 19. On pleading

 21. On prebends and dignities

 22. On not alienating the property of the church

 23. On religious houses, that they are to be subject to the bishop

 24. On taxes and procurations

 25. On the immunity of churches

 26. On usury

 28. On wrongs and the loss caused

 29. On the sentence of excommunication

21. On prebends and dignities

21. {26} We have decreed that the statute of Pope Clement IV, our predecessor of happy memory, that dignities and benefices which become vacant in the Roman curia are to be conferred by nobody other than the Roman pontiff, is to be modified as follows. Those who have the conferring of these benefices and dignities may confer them validly, notwithstanding the said statute, but not till a month after the day on which the dignities and benefices have become vacant, and then only by themselves personally or, if they are at a distance, through their vicar-generals in their dioceses, to whom this charge has been canonically entrusted . 5