Canon 418

1. Major superiors are: the president of a monastic confederation, the superior of a monastery sui iuris, the superior general

of an order or congregation, the provincial superior, their

vicars and others who have power corresponding to provincials,

and also those who, if the aforementioned are missing, in the

meantime legitimately succeed them in office. 2. Under the

designation of superior of monks and other religious does not

come either the local hierarch or the patriarch, without prejudice to the canons which assign power over them to the patriarch or to the local hierarch.