Authority structure Catholic religious order
thomas schoen 1903, ocist.
a religious order characterized authority structure superior general has jurisdiction on order s dependent communities. exception order of st benedict not religious order in technical sense, because has system of independent houses , meaning each abbey autonomous. however, constitutions governing order s global independent houses , distinct congregations (of there twenty) approved pope. likewise, according rank , authority, abbot primate s position regard other abbots [throughout world] understood rather analogy of primate in hierarchy of general of order dominicans , jesuits.
the canons regular of saint augustine in situation similar of benedictines. organized in 8 congregations , each headed abbot general , have abbot primate of confederated canons regular of saint augustine . , cistercians in thirteen congregations , each headed abbot general or abbot president , not use title of abbot primate .
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