Ordinaries and Local Ordinaries
Local ordinaries are placed over or exercise ordinary executive power in particular churches or equivalent communities.
- The Supreme Pontiff (the Pope) is a local ordinary for the whole Catholic Church.
- In Eastern Catholic Churches, Patriarchs, major archbishops, and metropolitans have ordinary power of governance for the whole territory of their respective autonomous particular churches.
- Diocesan/eparchial bishops/eparchs
- Other prelates who head, even if only temporarily, a particular church or a community equivalent to it (see above #Equivalents of diocesan bishops in law)
- Vicars general and protosyncelli
- Episcopal vicars and syncelli
Major superiors of religious institutes (including abbots) and of societies of apostolic life are ordinaries of their respective memberships, but not local ordinaries.
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