Your Parish
As it should appear on the cover of the ordo.
Used for date formatting only — no national calendar is assumed.
If given, and at least one date below is filled in, the ordo notes the solemn votive Mass In Anniversario Electionis et Consecrationis Episcopi (Roman Missal, Missae Votivae) on the relevant day(s) — kept in the cathedral and collegiate churches by mandate of the rubrics, moved to the next free day if impeded. Verify these dates rather than recalling them — your diocese's own website, the Annuario Pontificio, or catholic-hierarchy.org will have the bishop's exact consecration and installation dates.
Leave this unticked if he was consecrated a bishop specifically for this diocese — his Election and his Consecration are then the same event, so the Consecration date above already covers that anniversary. Tick it only when he came to this diocese after already being a bishop elsewhere (whether by translation, or a later appointment as its ordinary), so you can give that separate, later date below.
Patrons
Don't rely on memory or hearsay for who a patron actually is — a wrong entry here means a wrong feast in the finished ordo. Good places to check: your diocese's own website or annual directory (often called an Ordo, Kalendarium, or Directory), the diocesan chancery or archives office, the cathedral parish office, or — for a national or provincial patron — the relevant bishops' conference website or the decree itself if one was published (e.g. in Acta Apostolicae Sedis). If you can't confirm a patron with a source, it's better to leave the field blank than guess.
The saint or mystery the cathedral itself is dedicated under — this is not necessarily the same as the diocese's principal Patron below (e.g. a "Sacred Heart Cathedral" in a diocese patronised by Our Lady of Perpetual Help). Rubricae Generales Breviarii, tit. IX n. 2: this is kept Double of the First Class with a common octave throughout the whole diocese, so fill it in whether or not your parish is the cathedral.
Rubricae Generales Breviarii, tit. IX n. 2: the Dedication of the Cathedral is kept as a Double of the First Class with a common octave, throughout the whole diocese, by every secular priest — not merely as an external solemnity, and not only in the cathedral itself. Enter the day it was consecrated, not the day it was merely blessed or opened — the diocesan chancery or cathedral parish office will have the exact date if you don't.
This is a different, separate patron from the diocese's below — the patron of your particular civil town or city, not of the diocese as a whole. It is the same saint as the diocesan Patron only if your town happens to be the cathedral city, and even then not necessarily. Leave it blank if your town has no patron of its own, or if you are unsure.
This is the patron of the diocese as a whole, not of your particular town (see above) — it is often, but not always, the same saint as the Titular of the cathedral you entered above (e.g. St. Patrick's Cathedral ↔ St. Patrick as Patron of that Archdiocese); enter it here even if it repeats that name.
Rubricae Generales Breviarii, tit. IX n. 3: the town/city, diocese, province and nation each have their own principal Patron, kept as a Double of the First Class with a common octave (secular clergy) — fill in only the levels that apply to you. The rubric gives that octave to only ONE principal Patron per level; an additional patron of the same level is, strictly, a secondary Patron (Greater Double, no octave) unless a later decree names co-equal patrons of that level — in that rare case only, tick "also has a common octave" on the added row.
Kept as Greater Doubles, without octave.