Congregation for Clergy and Religious

The “personnel department” of the AJC and is responsible for determining the qualifications of those who wish to be deacons, priests and bishops, and for recommending to the Patriarch and Apostolic Council those who should be ordained, incardinated, given titles of
honor, or raised to the Holy Episcopacy. In addition, this Congregation
recommends to the Patriarch regulations regarding clerical attire and vesture,
the use of titles and honorifics, as well as ecclesiastical heraldry.

Prefect
The Patriarch of the Apostolic Johannite Church