# Consultor > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Consultor > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Consultor.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consultor > Source revision: 1189819214 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|In the Catholic Church, title for various advisory positions}} {{Catholic Church hierarchy sidebar|Administrative and pastoral titles}} {{canon law}} A '''consultor''' is one who gives counsel, i.e., a counselor. In the [Catholic Church](/source/Catholic_Church), it is a specific title for various advisory positions: *in the [Roman Curia](/source/Roman_Curia), a consultor is a specially appointed expert who may be called upon for advice desired by a department. Consultors, who can be members of the [clergy](/source/clergy), female or male [religious](/source/religious), or [laity](/source/laity), and possibly even non-Catholics, are called upon according to need and according to their competence in specific fields. The decisions are then made by the cardinals and (since the Second Vatican Council) bishops who are members of the department, those of the greatest importance being made at plenary meetings, held in principle every year, at which even those members not resident in Rome take part, while those that are important but of ordinary character are taken at the more frequent ordinary meetings, and the day-to-day routine work is done by the prefect or president of the department, assisted by the secretary and under-secretary and the other members of the staff. *in a [diocese](/source/diocese), the college of consultors consists of [priest](/source/priest)s charged with advising the [bishop](/source/bishop); some decisions require that they be given a hearing, others require their consent; when a ''[sede vacante](/source/sede_vacante)'' situation arises, the college of consultors is obliged to elect a [diocesan administrator](/source/diocesan_administrator) within eight days of receiving notice of the vacancy.[https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P1H.HTM canon 421 of the Code of Canon Law] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120102092325/https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P1H.HTM |date=January 2, 2012 }} *in certain regular congregations (i.e. [religious order](/source/religious_order)s) consultors can advise the [superior-general](/source/superior-general), (e.g. the six geographically diverse consultors to the superior general of the [Passionist](/source/Passionist)s), [provincial superior](/source/provincial_superior) (e.g. [Redemptorist](/source/Redemptorist) Vice-provincials), or a local superior. ==See also== *[Definitor](/source/Definitor) ==Sources and references== {{reflist}} * [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04323a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia] {{Authority control}} Category:Ecclesiastical titles Category:Catholic Church legal terminology Category:Catholic ecclesiastical titles {{RC-Canon-law-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Consultor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consultor) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consultor?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.