(Latin: praecedere, to go before)
Superiority of rank. Canonical precedence is determined for individuals by:
Where it is not a question merely of individuals the precedence is as follows: the secular clergy, the religious clergy, the religious of a non-clerical society, the laity. The place of honor is at the end of processions.
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