Editing Personal prelature (section)

==Structure==
A personal prelature is an ordinary jurisdictional structure of the Catholic Church. The prelate is a presbyter nominated by the Pope and governs the prelature with [[ordinary (Catholic Church)|ordinary power]]. In order to de-emphasize the importance of hierarchy in the governance of the personal prelature Pope Francis decreed in 2022 that the prelate should not be consecrated bishop.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/motu_proprio/documents/20220714-motu-proprio-ad-charisma-tuendum.html|title=Motu proprio ''Ad Charisma Tuendum''|publisher=[[Holy See Press Office]]|date=14 July 2022}}</ref> 

The prelate has the right to erect a national or international [[seminary]], and to promote students to [[holy orders]], in service to the pastoral mission of the prelature (can. 295).{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}

The [[laity|lay faithful]] of a prelature are ''determined by a personal criteria'', which is established in each case by the Apostolic See, in the constitutional documents of the prelature, or in its statutes. Diverse organizational models are possible, according to a variety of possible missions: for example, the determination ''a iure'' of those lay faithful for whom the pastoral mission is intended, or the express ''inscription in an apposite register'', as is the case in other personal ecclesiastical circumscriptions. It is also possible that, through a ''mutual agreement or convention'', lay faithful can pursue the specific mission of the prelature in organic cooperation with the prelate and his presbyterium, by the terms established in its statutes (can. 296). The fact that these lay persons are under the jurisdiction of the prelate does not impede their being under the authority of the diocesan bishop or pertaining to other ecclesiastical jurisdictions (accumulative jurisdiction).{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}

The statutes likewise are to define the relations of the personal prelature with the [[bishop|diocesan bishops]] in whose [[diocese]]s the prelature exercises its pastoral or missionary works (can. 297).{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}