Prelate
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"Prelacy" redirects here. For the Christian denomination sometimes referred to as "prelacy", see Anglicanism.
For the village in Canada, see Prelate, Saskatchewan.
A prelate (/ˈprɛlət/)[1] is a high-ranking member of the Christian clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin praelatus, the past participle of praeferre, which means 'carry before', 'be set above or over' or 'prefer'; hence, a prelate is one set over others.
The archetypal prelate is a bishop, whose prelature is his particular church. All other prelates, including the regular prelates such as abbots and major superiors, are based upon this original model of prelacy.