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In the canon law of the Catholic Church, a procurator is one who acts on behalf of and by virtue of the authority of another.〔(John Hardon, ''Modern Catholic Dictionary'' )〕 Bishops have been represented at councils by procurators, as Saint Peter Canisius attended the Council of Trent as procurator for the Bishop of Augsburg.〔(John Coulson, ''The Saints: A Concise Bibliographical Dictionary'' )〕 Religious institutes, societies of apostolic life and autonomous particular Church may have representatives resident in Rome acting on their behalf in business they may have with the Holy See.〔 Within such institutes of consecrated life and societies of apostolic life, the person charged with matters such as the purchase of provisions, furniture, books and other supplies may be called a procurator.〔 This officer may be called a provincial procurator or a procurator general, if looking after the needs of a province or of the institute as a whole. In other institutes, the terms used may be bursar or econome. A party to litigation may generally appoint a procurator instead of responding personally.〔(Code of Canon Law, Book VII, Part I, Title IV, Chapter II: "Procurators for Litigation and Advocates" )〕 The name "fiscal procurator" or "fiscal promoter" was previously used in canon law〔(Joseph Laurentius, "Fiscal Procurator" in ''Catholic Encyclopedia'' (1909 )〕 for the official known since the publication of the 1917 Code of Canon Law as the promoter of justice and whose function is to safeguard the public welfare in cases brought before ecclesiastical tribunals.〔(Sebastian S. Karambai, ''Ministers and Ministries in the Local Church'' (St Pauls BYB 2005 ISBN 9788171097258), pp. 112-114 )〕 In canonization cases, the corresponding official was called the promoter of the faith or, in popular parlance, the devil's advocate. ==See also== * Proctor 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Procurator (Catholic Church)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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