Provincial superiors are found in the institutes of more recent formation, which began with the mendicant orders.

Provincial Superiors are responsible for administration in each Province.

There are also definitors in religious orders who generally provide council and assistance to the superiors general and provincial superiors of their order.

Corporately becoming the Institute's "Governing Body" the ten provincial superiors approved a new set of constitutions and bylaws in 1994.

In religious orders with a hierarchy above the local community, there will also be superior general and possibly provincial superiors above the local abbot, prior, or mother superior.

At the same time the organization created a category of at-large membership to allow for members in addition to those appointed by the respective provincial superiors as representatives of the ten provinces.

In its heyday it was the home of many eminent scholars, supplied several Provincial superiors of the Order in England, and was repeatedly host to the provincial chapters of the Order.

Ubi Primum (Pius IX, 1847) is an encyclical of Pope Pius IX to the abbots, provincial superiors, and the heads of the Christian religious orders about discipline in religion.

Two journeys to Rome on business of the Order afforded him the opportunity of traveling over most of Italy; and after his final return he saw much of France, while acting as secretary to various provincial superiors of his Order.

Seculars are spread throughout the world in various communities, with each community canonically erected, and subject to the direction of the provincial superiors of each province and the General Superior of the Discalced Carmelite Order in Rome .

The Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious (CMSWR) is a Roman Catholic association of major superiors (superiors general or provincial superiors) of religious institutes for women in the United States.

The Conference comprises the provincial superiors of the nine Jesuit provinces in the US (California, Chicago-Detroit, Maryland, Missouri, New England, New Orleans, New York, Oregon, and Wisconsin), known collectively as the US Assistancy.

The old orders had no provincial superiors; even when the monasteries were united to form congregations, the arch-abbot of each congregation was in the position of a superior general whose powers were limited to particular cases, almost like the powers of a metropolitan archbishop over the dioceses of his suffragans.

The superior general of an order displays a black galero with six tassels on each side, while provincial superiors and abbots use a black galero with six or three tassels on each side, although Norbertines (White Canons) use a white galero.