1. Nicholas II secured a decree that, for the future, ordinations by men guilty of simony were not tobe valid. 尼古拉二世严格执行了一项教令，确定今后凡经由圣职买卖而获得的圣职一概无效。
2. CANON XXXV: A Bishop shall not dare to confer ordinations outside of his own boundanes, in cities and territories not subject to him. 法令三十五：主教不得祝圣自己辖区之外、不受他管辖的城市或地区的人为神职人员。
3. Sources within the Church in China said most of the invitees to the tour have participated in recent illicit ordinations either in Leshan or Shantou dioceses. 教会消息人士对天亚社说，大部分受邀者曾参与六月在乐山教区和七月在汕头教区的主教祝圣礼。
4. The aim, he says, is "to reduce the enormous quantity of meetings, co-ordinations, permissions, conciliations, dispositions, regulations, circulars, etc, etc." 他讲道，这样做的目的是“减少数不尽的会议、部门间的协调、事务的许可、争端的协调、事故的处理、规章制度的订立以及通告的发布等。”
