Editing Personal prelature (section)

==Nature==

A personal prelature is an institution having clergy and lay members which carry out specific pastoral activities. 
The adjective ''personal'' refers to the fact that, in contrast with previous [[Canon law|canonical]] use for ecclesiastical institutions, the [[jurisdiction]] of the prelate is not linked to a territory but over persons wherever they happen to be. The establishment of personal prelatures is an exercise of the [[theology|theologically]] inherent power of self-organization which the Church has to pursue its mission, though a personal prelature is not a [[particular church]] as [[diocese]]s and [[eparchy|eparchies]] are.{{Cn|date=July 2021}}