To Christ everything is possible and everything is known...

We believe, teach, and confess that the Son of Man really is exalted.  He is (in deed and truth) exalted according to His human nature to the right hand of God's almighty majesty and power.  For He was received into God when He was conceived of the Holy Spirit in His mother's womb, and His human nature was personally united with the Son of the Highest.

Christ always had this majesty according to the personal union.  Yet He abstained from using it in the state of His humiliation, and because of this He truly increased in all wisdom and favor with God and man.  Therefore, He did not always use the majesty, but only when it pleased Him.  Then, after His resurrection, He entirely laid aside the form of a servant, but not the human nature, and was established in the full use, manifestation, and declaration of the divine majesty.  In this way He entered into His glory.  So now not just as God, but also as man He knows all things and can do all things.  He is present with all creatures, and has under His feet and in His hands everything that is in heaven and on earth and under the earth, as He Himself testifies, in Matthew 28:18, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me."  And St. Paul says in Ephesians 4:10, "He ... ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things." Because He is present, He can exercise His power everywhere.  To Him everything is possible and everything is known.
~BOC, FSD, VIII, 15-16

The authority to administer the Gospel lies with the Church....

Wherever the Church is, there is the authority to administer the Gospel.  Therefore, it is necessary for the Church to retain the authority to call, elect, and ordain ministers.  This authority is a gift that in reality is given to the Church.  No human power can take this gift away from the Church.  As Paul testifies to the Ephesians, when "He ascended...He gave gifts to men" (Ephesians 4:8).  He lists among the gifts specifically belonging to the church "pastors and teachers" (4:11), and adds that they are given for the ministry, "for the building up of the body of Christ" (4:12).  So wherever there is a True Church, the right to elect and ordain ministers necessarily exists.  In the same way, in a case of necessity even a layman absolves and becomes the minister and pastor of another.  Augustine tells the story of two Christians in a ship, one of whom baptized the catechumen, who after Baptism then absolved the baptizer.
~BOC, PPP, 67