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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Election |
 | | election, in a broad sense, would be any designation of a person to an ecclesiastical charge or function; thus understood it includes various modes: postulation, presentation, nomination, recommendation, request or petition, and, finally, free collation. |
 | | election is simple request, or petition, by which the clergy or people of a diocese beg the pope to grant them the prelate they desire. |
 | | election is decided in favour of the senior (by age, ordination, or religious profession); sometimes the deciding vote is assigned to the presiding officer. |
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