Christian
Opus Dei (numerary high-control variant)
25/40· HighConfidence: High
Catholic personal prelature founded by Josemaría Escrivá (1928). Numerary celibate members live communally and surrender salaries; supernumerary lay members are mainstream Catholics.
CLCI radar
High Control
BITE breakdown
Behavior Control7/10
Information Control6/10
Thought Control6/10
Emotional Control6/10
Modifiers (+0)
0 — applies to numerary celibate members; supernumerary lay members are low-control.
Founded
1928
Members
≈90,000 globally (≈3,000 numeraries)
Active in
Global
In context
Opus Dei numeraries practice corporal mortification (cilice, discipline), live in shared centres, and surrender most salary to the prelature. Multiple ex-numerary memoirs document moderate-high control. The supernumerary majority are non-residential.
Notable public ex-members
- Maria del Carmen Tapia
- John Roche
Timeline
- 1928Opus Dei founded by Escrivá
- 1982Erected as personal prelature
Sources
- Maria del Carmen Tapia, 'Beyond the Threshold' (1997)
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