prelature in English

noun
1
the office, rank, or sphere of authority of a prelate.
Opus Dei was founded by a priest, has a bishop at its head, and numbers many priests and bishops among its members; its full name, before it was erected as a personal prelature , was the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei.
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1. The Dioceses of Lingayen, Caceres, Nueva Segovia, Tuguegarao, Legaspi, Sorsogon, and the Prelature Nullius of Batanes and Babuyanes, as well as the Dioceses Bacolod, Cagayan, Capiz, Jaro or Santa Isabel, Surigao, Zamboanga, and the Prelature Nullius of Cotabato and Sulu, Davao and Ozamis, were withdrawn from the Metropolitan Archbishoprics of

2. The Church’s governance structures include dioceses and archdioceses, territorial prelatures and territorial Abbacies, vicariates and prefectures apostolic, patriarchal exarchates, archiepiscopal exarchates, and one personal prelature

3. Generally Cooperators come from among the relatives, friends, colleagues and neighbors of the members of Opus Dei, or from among those who have devotion to Saint Josemaría, those who take part in the apostolates of the Prelature, or those who are interested in the educational and social