Where there is the hope that a new Province of the Order might be founded in future, and where there are at least three canonically established houses and thirty solemnly professed members, the Prior General, with the consent of his Council, following a careful examination of the situation and having consulted the Prior Provincial and his Council as well members concerned, can found a General Commissariat. Once the General Commissariat has been established, the members’ juridical bonds to the Province to which they originally belonged are automatically severed (Carmelite Constitutions 181). At this moment, the Carmelite Order has three General Commissariats.

• "La Vergine Bruna", Naples - Italy
• Portugal
• Paraná