Council of Trent
Council of Trent: Session XIII, Reformation, Chapter VIII
Waterworth (1848), Hanover transcription; separate papal documents excluded
Reformation, Chapter VIII
CHAPTER VIII. Important episcopal causes shall be taken cognizance of by the Supreme Pontiff.
The causes of bishops, when, on account of the quality of the crime objected, they have to appear (in person), shall be carried before the Sovereign Pontiff, and be by him decided.
Translation: J. Waterworth, The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent (1848), Hanover Historical Texts Project transcription (1995).
Source: Council of Trent: Session XIII (Hanover Historical Texts Project)