CAnon Law

1. Personal prelature
and
Christ’s Faithful

2. •WHAT IS PERSONAL PRELATURE.
• It is a particular church equivalent in law to a diocese
•established by the Apostolic See
•Before establishing, bishop’s conference must be
consulted.
But consent is not required.
.

3. Membership
• Deacons and priests of the secular clergy.
• Religious are excluded

4. Membership
1) To promote an appropriate distribution of priests;
2) To carry out special missionary enterprises in
different regions.

5. GOVERNANCE
•Governed by statutes laid down by the Apostolic See.
•Is presided over by a Prelate.
•Usually he is not a bishop.

6. RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF A PERSONAL
PRELATE
i. He has the right:
1) To establish a national or international
seminary and promote seminarians
to Sacred Orders;
2) To incardinate clerics into the prelature.

7. ii. He has the duty:
1) To provide for the proper spiritual formation of
seminarians.
2) To provide for their material need .

8. LAITY IN A PERSONAL PRELATURE
• The laity within a personal prelature are not subjects of
the personal prelate.
• Associated with it by individual agreement.
• Their role will be specified in the statutes of the
prelature.

9. Associations Christ’s Faithful

10. • There are associations in church but these are distinct
from consecrated life
• Here, clerics or laity strive to promote public worship
or Christian teaching.
• Faithful are to join which are recommended
ecclesiastical authority.

11. Private Associations
• Faithful have the right to constitute associations.
catholic associations
• Those are with the consent of the competent ecclesial
authority
public associations.
• The associations of Christ faithful which are
established by the competent ecclesiastical
authorities.

12. •Clerical Associations
• Under the direction of clerics.
•What is third order
• Associations whose members live in the world but share in the spirit
of some religious institute.
•Duty of competent authority
• To ensure the integrity of faith and morals.
• Association of every kind are subjected to Holy see.

13. •Admission
• According to law of each association
• One person can be in different associations.
•Dismissal
• With a just reason
•Rights and obligations
• A private Association which is not constituted a
juridically person cannot be the subject of duties and
right.

14. Thank you