Personal ordinariate
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A personal ordinariate for former Anglicans,[1][2] shortened as personal ordinariate or Anglican ordinariate,[3][4] is a canonical structure within the Catholic Church established in order to enable "groups of Anglicans"[5] and Methodists to join the Catholic Church while preserving elements of their liturgical and spiritual patrimony.
Created in accordance with the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus of 4 November 2009[6][7][8][9] and its complementary norms,[10] the ordinariates are juridically equivalent to a diocese,[11] "a particular church in which and from which exists the one and unique Catholic Church",[12] but may be erected in the same territory as other dioceses "by reason of the rite of the faithful or some similar reason".[12]
Three personal ordinariates were established between 2011 and 2012:
- Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham (England and Wales, Scotland)
- Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter (United States, Canada)
- Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross (Australia, Japan)