 By law, however, there is, strictly speaking, no fixed time for making this payment.For although as a rule it is customary to do so in the synod, yet custom or agreement can place it at another time.In fact the S. Congregation of the Council has declared that the cathedraticum must be paid, even in those years in which no diocesan synod is celebrated (In Perus., Cathedr., 1735).