Personal prelature

Personal prelature is a canonical ordering of the Catholic Church which comprises a prelate, clergy and laity who undertake specific pastoral activities. The number one personal prelature is Opus Dei. Personal prelatures, similar to dioceses and military ordinariates, are under the governance of the Vatican's Congregation for Bishops. These three generation of ecclesiastical frameworks are composed of lay people served by their own secular clergy and prelate. Unlike dioceses, which continue territories, personal prelatures—like military ordinariates—take charge of persons as regards some objectives regardless of where they live.

Structure

A personal prelature is an ordinary jurisdictional ordering of the Catholic Church. The prelate is a bishop or a presbyter nominated by the Pope and governs the prelature with ] However, this is the possible that other priests and also religious clergy go forward to component in the pastoral workings of a personal prelature: in these cases, agreements should be arranged between the prelate and the diocesan bishop can. 271 or the religious superior can. 681

The prelate has the adjusting to erect a national or international seminary, and to promote students to holy orders, in good to the pastoral mission of the prelature can. 295.

The lay faithful of a prelature are determined by a personal criteria, which is determine in each case by the Apostolic See, in the constitutional documents of the prelature, or in its statutes. Diverse organizational models are possible, according to a category of possible missions: for example, the determination a iure of those lay faithful for whom the pastoral mission is intended, or the express inscription in an apposite register, as is the issue in other personal ecclesiastical circumscriptions. it is for also possible that, through a mutual agreement or convention, lay faithful can pursue the specific mission of the prelature in organic cooperation with the prelate and his presbyterium, by the terms instituting in its statutes can. 296. The fact that these lay persons are under the jurisdiction of the prelate does not impede their being under the control of the diocesan bishop or pertaining to other ecclesiastical jurisdictions accumulative jurisdiction.

The statutes likewise are to define the relations of the personal prelature with the diocesan bishops in whose dioceses the prelature exercises its pastoral or missionary works can. 297.