Can. 1015 §1. Each person is to be ordained to the presbyterate or the diaconate by his proper bishop or with legitimate dimissorial letters from him.
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Can. 1015 §2. If not impeded by a just cause, the proper bishop is to ordain his own subjects personally; without an apostolic indult, however, he cannot ordain licitly a subject of an Eastern rite.
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Can. 1015 §3. The person who can give dimissorial letters to receive orders can himself also confer the same orders personally if he possesses the episcopal character.
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