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In those hierarchically organised churches of Western Christianity which have an ecclesiastical law system, an ordinary is an officer of the church who by reason of office has ordinary power to execute the church's laws^[1]. Western Christianity is a term used to cover the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church, the Churches of the Anglican Communion, the Lutheran Church In Political science and Constitutional law, the executive is the branch of government responsible for the day-to-day management of the State. The term comes from the Latin word ordinarius. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. In Eastern Christianity, a corresponding officer is called a hierarch^[2], which comes from the Greek word ἱεράρχης meaning "priestly ruler". Families of churches Eastern Christians have a shared tradition but they became divided ( Schism) during the early centuries of Christianity in disputes about Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly

Ordinary power

In canon law, the power to govern the church is divided into the power to make laws (legislative), enforce the laws (executive), and to judge based on the law (judicial)^[3]. Canon law is internal ecclesiastical law governing the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox churches and the Anglican Communion of churches A person exercises power to govern either because the person holds an office to which the law grants governing power or because someone with governing power has delegated it to the person. Ordinary power is the former, while the latter is delegated power^[4]. The office with ordinary power could possess the governing power itself (proper ordinary power) or instead it could have the ordinary power of agency, the inherent power to exercise someone else's power (vicarious ordinary power)^[5]. In the broadest sense a vicar (from the Latin Vicarius) is a representative anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior

The law vesting ordinary power could either be ecclesiastical law, i. e. the positive enactments that the church has established for itself, or divine law, i. e. the laws which the church believes were given to it by God^[6]. As an example of divinely instituted ordinaries, Roman Catholics believe that when Jesus established the Church he in turn established the episcopate and the Primacy of Simon Peter and endowed the offices with power to rule the Church^[7]. Jesus of Nazareth (7–2 BC / BCE —26–36 AD / CE) A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight A number of Christian denominations and scholars hold that Simon Peter was the most prominent of the apostles, favored by Jesus of Nazareth with the first Thus, in the Roman Catholic Church, the office of successor of Simon Peter and the office of diocesan bishop possess their ordinary power even in the absence of positive enactments from the Church.

Many officers possess ordinary power but, due to their lack of ordinary executive power, are not called ordinaries. The best example of this phenomenon is the office of judicial vicar, a. In the Roman Catholic Church, a judicial vicar is an officer of the Diocese who has ordinary power to judge cases in the diocesan Ecclesiastical court k. a. officialis. An official is someone who holds an office (function or mandate, regardless whether it carries an actual working space with it in an Organisation or The judicial vicar only has authority through his office to exercise the diocesan bishop's power to judge cases^[8]. Though the vicar has vicarious ordinary judicial power, he is not an ordinary because he lacks ordinary executive power. A vicar general, however, has authority through their office to exercise the diocesan bishop's executive power^[9]. A vicar general (often abbreviated VG) is the principal deputy of the bishop of a diocese for the exercise of administrative authority He is therefore an ordinary because of this vicarious ordinary executive power.

Catholic usage

Local ordinaries/hierarchs

Local ordinaries are ordinaries over particular churches^[10]. A particular Church is in Catholic theology and canon law, an ecclesial community headed by a bishop or someone recognized as the equivalent of a bishop The following officers are local ordinaries:

• Diocesan/eparchial bishops and all prelates who head particular churches
• Vicars capitular, administrators sede vacante, apostolic vicars, apostolic prefects, apostolic administrators, and exarchs
• Vicars general and protosyncelli
• Episcopal vicars and syncelli

Other ordinaries/hierarchs

Other officers are also ordinaries (Latin Church) or hierarchs (Eastern Churches), but not local ordinaries (Latin Church) or local hierarchs (Eastern Churches):

• Patriarchs, major archbishops, and metropolitans who head sui juris churches
• Abbots and major superiors over their respective religious orders
• Prelates of personal prelatures

The Pope is local ordinary of Rome. In many rites of the Roman Catholic Church and in Anglican churches, a diocese is an administrative territorial unit administered by a Bishop. Eparchy is an Anglicized Greek word authentically Latinized as eparchia and loosely translating as 'rule over something' but has the following In the Catholic Church, a Bishop is an ordained minister who holds the fullness of the priesthood. A prelate is a high-ranking member of the Clergy who either is an Ordinary or ranks in precedence with ordinaries A particular Church is in Catholic theology and canon law, an ecclesial community headed by a bishop or someone recognized as the equivalent of a bishop 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. This article is about Byzantine governors and ecclesiastical ranks A vicar general (often abbreviated VG) is the principal deputy of the bishop of a diocese for the exercise of administrative authority A vicar general (often abbreviated VG) is the principal deputy of the bishop of a diocese for the exercise of administrative authority A vicar general (often abbreviated VG) is the principal deputy of the bishop of a diocese for the exercise of administrative authority A vicar general (often abbreviated VG) is the principal deputy of the bishop of a diocese for the exercise of administrative authority Originally a patriarch was a man who exercised autocratic authority as a Pater familias over an extended family In the Eastern Catholic Churches, major archbishop is a title for an hierarch to whose Archiepiscopal see is granted the same jurisdiction in his autonomous In Hierarchical Christian churches the rank of metropolitan bishop, or simply metropolitan, pertains to the Diocesan bishop or Sui iuris, commonly also spelled sui juris, is a Latin phrase that literally means “of one’s own right” The word abbot, meaning Father, is a title given to the head of a Monastery in various traditions including Christianity. 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 Personal prelature is an institutional structure of the Roman Catholic Church which comprises a Prelate, Clergy and possibly Laity who undertake History See also History of the Papacy Catholics recognize the Pope as a successor to Saint Peter, who Jesus named as the "shepherd" and He is also the ordinary, but not the local ordinary, of the Latin rite church. The Latin Rite is one of the 23 Sui iuris Particular Churches within the Catholic Church. He is also the local ordinary of the Universal Church.

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See also

• Military ordinariate