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Jurisdiction cannot come from the "Church." It can only come from the Pope. This is the only possibility since Christ created the Petrine office and communicated to it all ecclesiastical jurisdiction. The idea that jurisdiction sometimes flows abstractly from the "Church" is somewhat common but I think this is due to people confounding the nature of the Church with the nature of civil society. In a nation, there are instances in which legal authority can be spontaneously acquired, such as in the case of of a military dictator who seizes power in a coup. This is because human society is based on the existence of its citizens and the human authority of nations can be designated explicitly or implicitly by men. However, the Church is a supernatural body, the governing power of which was neither created nor bestowed by men on the leader, but rather given directly by Christ himself to St. Peter. Hence the idea that floats around sometimes that jurisdiction emanates to certain churchmen from the Church and not via the Pope is erroneous. Even supplied jurisdiction is a general faculty granted by the Pope to any priest who finds himself in requisite need of it.

I think the question of jurisdiction in today's circuмstances is quite clear-cut. Whatever, one may make of the current Roman hierarchy, be it somehow legitimate or entirely illegitimate, it is certain that recusant traditionalists do not have any form of ordinary jurisdiction. Hence there can be no kind of hierarchy in Tradition, save for some kind of moral order that bishops and priests self-impose. Otherwise, were the clergy to draw the asinine conclusion that because the Church needs to function trads must then have jurisdiction, we would witness the greatest of absurdities.

Pardon my response. In retrospect, perhaps my tone was a bit patronizing.

Anyway, formal cause/efficient cause? Care to elaborate?