are accused of a secular or ecclesiastical offense or crime (some procedures can be expedited in certain criminal cases involving sex abuse). The state of a non-ordained religious, therefore, is not precisely the same as a lay unmarried person who is not a religious. While the state of consecrated life is neither clerical or lay, institutes themselves are classified as one or the other. A clerical institute is 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". In clerical institutes, such as the Dominican Order or the Jesuits, most of the members are clerics. In only a few cases do lay institutes have some clergy among their members. Catholic canon law The 1983 Code of Canon Law devotes to religious 103 canons arranged in eight chapters: Religious houses and their erection and suppression The governance of institutes The admission of candidates and the formation of members The obligations and rights of institutes and their members The apostolate of institutes Separation of members from the institute Religious raised to the episcopate Conferences of major superiors Lutheranism In the Lutheran Churches, religious are defined as those who make religious vows before their bishop to live consecrated life, especially in a religious order. An ordained priest who is not a part of a Lutheran religious order is considered 'secular', rather than 'religious'. Anglicanism In the Anglican Communion, the religious are those who have taken "vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, usually in community". See also Consecrated life Institute of consecrated life Religious institute Religious congregation Secular institute Society of apostolic life References Christian monasticism Western Christianity