The Society, an independent and extra-diocesan community within the Basilian tradition, is administered by a Superior-General. Matters of import are passed upon by the Chapter, which consists of all clergy.
While independent of and separate from any jurisdiction or other Basilian community, the Society neither conflicts with, nor passes judgement upon the claims of any of the various communities of Orthodoxy or the various expressions and communities identified with or inspired by the venerable Basilian tradition. This extra-diocesan status has analogies in monastic houses of both the east and the west (notably the Benedictines, whose work and rule are singularly congenial to Basilians.)