Council of Trent
Council of Trent: Session VII, Reformation, Chapter I
Waterworth (1848), Hanover transcription; separate papal documents excluded
Reformation, Chapter I
CHAPTER I. Who is capable of governing Cathedral churches.
No one shall be assumed unto the government of Cathedral churches, but one that is born of lawful wedlock, is of mature age, and endowed with gravity of manners, and skill in letters, agreeably to the constitution of Alexander III., which begins, Cum in cunctis, promulgated in the Council of Lateran.
Translation: J. Waterworth, The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent (1848), Hanover Historical Texts Project transcription (1995).
Source: Council of Trent: Session VII (Hanover Historical Texts Project)