prelatures 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 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