Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state, dignity, or office of a prelate; also, the period during which the functions of a prelate are exercised.
- noun Prelacy; the order of prelates.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or dignity of a prelate; prelacy.
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- noun
prelates in general - noun the
office of a prelate
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun prelates collectively
- noun the office or station of a prelate
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Examples
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A personal prelature is something like a global diocese without boundaries, headed by its own bishop and with its own membership and clergy.
Traditional Anglican Communion to be Received as Personal Prelature? 2009
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A personal prelature is a canonical structure that was proposed by the Second Vatican Council decree Presbyterorum Ordinis.
Pope 'wants personal prelature' for ex-Anglicans - Catholic Herald Online 2009
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Archbishop Gomez is the nation's only bishop who is a member of the Opus Dei religious prelature, which is an influential Catholic canonical structure made famous by the movie "The DaVinci Code," though the portrayal was widely criticized as wildly inaccurate.
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Archbishop Gomez is the nation's only bishop who is a member of the Opus Dei religious prelature, which is an influential Catholic canonical structure made famous by the movie "The DaVinci Code," though the portrayal was widely criticized as wildly inaccurate.
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Since then, Prince has converted to Roman Catholicism - and may be a member or associate of Opus Dei, a very conservative cult now described as a prelature that is a strong ally of the current pope, Benedict XVI, who - when he was a Cardinal - paved the way for the beatification and canonization of the cult's founder, St. Josemaria Escriva by his predecessor, Pope John Paul II.
GlobalResearch.ca 2010
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Archbishop Gomez is the nation's only bishop who is a member of the Opus Dei religious prelature, which is an influential Catholic canonical structure made famous by the movie "The DaVinci Code," though the portrayal was widely criticized as wildly inaccurate.
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A remote possibility is that, by "prelature", Fellay meant a territorial prelature rather than a personal one.
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And then recently, he's said "prelature", although not qualified by 'personal' and in the context of a choice between two options neither of which was an a.a.
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