A consultor is one who gives council, i. e. a counselor.
In the Catholic Church, it is a specific title for various advisory positions:
- in the Roman Curia a consultor is an expert who advises the prefect, members, and staff of a dicastery on subjects relating to their expertise. The Roman Curia is the administrative apparatus of the Holy See and the central governing body of the entire Roman Catholic Church, together with the Pope Prefect (from the Latin praefectus, perfect participle of praeficere: "make in front" i Dicastery (from Greek δικαστήριον, law-court from δικάστης, judge/juror is an Italicism sometimes used in English to refer to the These consultors can be members of the clergy, the religious, the laity, and possibly even non-Catholics. Clergy is the generic term used to describe the formal religious leadership within a given Religion. A religion is a set of Tenets and practices often centered upon specific Supernatural and moral claims about Reality, the Cosmos In religious organizations the laity comprises all persons who are not Clergy.
- in a diocese, a college of consultors consists of priests charged with advising the bishop; one of the duties of the diocesan college of consultors is to elect a diocesan administrator during a period sede vacante. In many rites of the Roman Catholic Church and in Anglican churches, a diocese is an administrative territorial unit administered by a Bishop. A priest or priestess is a person having the authority or power to administer religious rites in particular rites of sacrifice to and propitiation of a deity or deities A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight A vicar capitular is a provisional Ordinary of a Roman Catholic Particular church. Sede vacante is the vacancy of the Episcopal see of a Particular church in the Canon law of the Roman Catholic Church.
- in certain regular congregations (i. e. religious orders) consultors can advise the superior-general, (e. A religious order is a lineage of communities and organizations of people who live in some way set apart from society in accordance with their specific religious devotion usually A Superior General, or General Superior, is the Superior at the head of a whole religious order or congregation g. the six geographically diverse consultors to the Superior general of the Passionists), provincial superior (e. Passionism is also an artistic movement Passionists are a Roman Catholic religious order that was founded by St Paul of A provincial superior is a major superior of a Religious order acting under the order's Superior general and exercising a general supervision over all the local superiors g. Redemptorist Vice-provincials), or a local superior. The Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Latin Congregatio Sanctissimi Redemptoris – C
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