While the state of consecrated life is neither clerical or lay, institutes themselves are classified as one or the other, a clerical institute being one that " by reason of the purpose or design intended by the founder or by virtue of legitimate tradition, is under the direction of clerics, assumes the exercise of sacred orders, and is recognized as such by the authority of the Church ".

While the state of consecrated life is neither clerical or lay, institutes themselves are classified as one or the other, a clerical institute being one that " by reason of the purpose or design intended by the founder or by virtue of legitimate tradition, is under the direction of clerics, assumes the exercise of sacred orders, and is recognized as such by the authority of the Church ".

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