. "A prelate is a high-ranking member of the clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin pr\u00E6latus, the past participle of pr\u00E6ferre, 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."@en . .