Subject of legal rights and obligations
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In the canon law of the Catholic Church, a person is a subject of certain legal rights and obligations.[1][2] Persons may be distinguished between physical and juridic persons. Juridic persons may be distinguished as collegial or non-collegial, and public or private juridical persons. The Holy See and the Catholic Church as such are not juridic persons since juridic persons are created by ecclesiastical law. Rather, they are moral persons by divine law.