those who are baptized and accordingly have all the rights and duties of Christians unless expressly limited
corporate bodies or institutions constituted by Divine right, namely, the Catholic Church and the Apostolic See, or erected by ecclesiastical authority, e.g., religious orders or seminaries; in common usage, members of the clergy or of religious institutes
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Bibliography Information Entry for 'Ecclesiastical Persons'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/e/ecclesiastical-persons.html. 1910.