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.
Read more about this topic: Catholic Church Hierarchy
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