Ordinariate

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In the organisation of the Catholic Church and of the Anglican Communion [1] an ordinariate is a pre- or pseudo-diocesan ecclesiastical structure, of geographical or personal nature, headed by an ordinary who is not necessarily a bishop.

An ordinariate can be:

See also

References

  1. See, for example, the Anglican Military Ordinariate in Canada.
  2. ... we are learning to call them the 'Anglican ordinariates'" - Aidan Nichols in Andrew Burnham, Heaven and Earth in Little Space (Canterbury Press Norwich 2010 ISBN   978-1-84825-005-5), p. xv
  3. "Bishop Stephen Lopes of the Anglican Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter..." "Pillar Horse Race". The Pillar . 11 November 2021. Retrieved 12 November 2021.