Title IV. Personal Prelatures (Cann. 294 - 297)

Can.294 After the conferences of bishops involved have been heard, the Apostolic See can erect personal prelatures,

which consist of presbyters and deacons of the secular clergy, to promote a suitable distribution of presbyters or to

accomplish particular pastoral or missionary works for various regions or for different social groups.

Can.295 §1. The statutes established by the Apostolic See govern a personal prelature, and a prelate presides offer

it as the proper ordinary; he has the right to erect a national or international seminary and even to incardinate

students and promote them to orders under title of service to the prelature.

§2. The prelate must see to both the spiritual formation and decent support of those whom he has promoted

under the above-mentioned title.

Can.296 Lay persons can dedicate themselves to the apostolic works of a personal prelature by agreements entered

into with the prelature. The statutes, however, are to determine suitably the manner of this organic cooperation and

the principal duties and rights connected to it.

Can.297 The statutes likewise are to define the relations of the personal prelature with the local ordinaries in whose

particular churches the prelature itself exercises or desires to exercise its pastoral or missionary works, with the

previous consent of the diocesan bishop.