• Facets (new session)
• Description
• Metadata
• Settings
  • owl:sameAs
  • Inference Rule: b3sb3sifpfacetshttp://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#ldpleak:rulesoplwebskos-transvirtrdf-labelNone
    

A territorial prelate is, in Catholic usage, a prelate whose geographic jurisdiction, called territorial prelature, does not belong to any diocese and is considered a particular church.The territorial prelate is sometimes called a prelate nullius, from the Latin nullius diœceseos, prelate "of no diocese," meaning the territory falls directly under the jurisdiction of the pope and is not a diocese under a residing bishop.The term is also used in a generic sense, and may then equally refer to an apostolic prefecture, an apostolic vicariate, a permanent apostolic administration, or a territorial abbacy (see there).