TITLE IV:
PERSONAL PRELATURES (Cann. 294 - 297)
Can.
294 Personal prelatures may be established by the Apostolic See after
consultation with the Episcopal Conferences concerned. They are composed of
deacons and priests of the secular clergy. Their purpose is to promote an
appropriate distribution of priests, or to carry out special pastoral or
missionary enterprises in different regions or for different social groups.
Can.
295 §1 A personal prelature is governed by statutes laid down by the Apostolic
See. It is presided over by a Prelate as its proper Ordinary. He has the right
to establish a national or an international seminary, and to incardinate
students and promote them to orders with the title of service of the prelature.
§2 The
Prelate must provide both for the spiritual formation of those who are ordained
with this title, and for their becoming support.
Can.
296 Lay people can dedicate themselves to the apostolic work of a personal
prelature by way of agreements made with the prelature. The manner of this
organic cooperation and the principal obligations and rights associated with
it, are to be duly defined in the statutes.
Can.
297 The statutes are likewise to define the relationships of the prelature with
the local Ordinaries in whose particular Churches the prelature, with the prior
consent of the diocesan Bishop, exercises or wishes to exercise its pastoral or
missionary activity.
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