Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross

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Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross

Ordinariatus Personalis Dominae Nostrae Crucis Australis
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Coat of arms
Location
Country
Statistics
Parishes17
Members1,200 (2021) [1]
Information
Denomination Catholic Church
Sui iuris church Latin Church
Rite Anglican Use (Divine Worship) of the Roman Rite
Established15 June 2012
CathedralOrdinariate Parish of St Bede the Venerable, Sydney
Patron saint Augustine of Canterbury [2] [3]
Secular priests 19 [2]
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Ordinary Anthony Randazzo
Website
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The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross is a personal ordinariate of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church primarily within the territory of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference for groups of Anglicans who desire full communion with the Catholic Church in Australia and Asia. [4] Personal ordinariates, like military ordinariates and dioceses, are immediately subject to the Holy See in Rome. [2] The motto of the ordinariate is Mea Gloria Fides (My Faith is my Glory). [5] [6] The current apostolic administrator is Anthony Randazzo, who succeeded the second ordinary, Carl Reid, in 2023.

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Structure

A personal ordinariate established under the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus is canonically equivalent to a diocese. The faithful of the ordinariate are led by an ordinary. The ordinary may be either a bishop, if celibate, or priest, if married. [7]

The ordinary of a personal ordinariate is the equivalent to a diocesan bishop, and thus wears the same ecclesiastical attire and uses the same pontifical insignia (mitre, crosier, pectoral cross, and episcopal ring) as a diocesan bishop, even if not a bishop. [8]

History

In the first decade of the 21st century, a number of bishops from the Church of England and the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), a global "continuing Anglican" body, independently approached the Vatican seeking some manner of corporate reunion that would preserve their autonomy and their ecclesial structure within the Catholic Church. Pope Benedict XVI promulgated an apostolic constitution, Anglicanorum coetibus, permitting erection of personal ordinariates equivalent to dioceses, on 4 November 2009. [9] The Vatican subsequently erected three ordinariates: the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in the territory of the episcopal conference of England and Wales on 15 January 2011, [10] [11] the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter in the territory of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on 1 January 2012[ citation needed ] and the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross in the territory of Australian Conference of Catholic Bishops on 15 June 2012. [12]

The decree erecting the Personal Ordinariate of the Southern Cross designated the Church of Saints Ninian and Chad in Perth as the principal church of the ordinariate, which fulfills the same role as the cathedral church of a diocese. This church building previously housed a congregation of the Anglican Catholic Church in Australia (ACCA), the Australian province of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC). Pope Benedict XVI concurrently appointed Harry Entwistle, [2] a former bishop of the ACCA who received ordination as a presbyter of the Catholic Church on the same day, as the first ordinary. As of July 2019, the ordinariate has 18 congregations throughout Australia and Japan. [13]

The ordinariate announced that the Church of Torres Strait, previously a separate ecclesiastical province of the TAC, was coming into the ordinariate substantially intact and was going to form a territorial deanery in that region. [14] However, the Church of Torres Strait later decided not to join the ordinariate. In spite of this, a parish on Dauan Island in the Torres Strait chose to enter the ordinariate anyway and a former priest of the Church of Torres Strait was ordained as a transitional deacon in June 2018 by James Foley of Cairns. [15]

On 26 March 2019, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of the first ordinary, Harry Entwistle, after he reached retirement, and appointed as ordinary Carl Reid, until then the dean of the Deanery of St John the Baptist (Canada) of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter. [16] [17] Reid was installed on 27 August 2019. [18]

On 21 April 2023, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of the second ordinary, Carl Reid, and appointed Anthony Randazzo, Bishop of Broken Bay, as apostolic administrator of the ordinariate, effective 1 July 2023. [19] [20]

Communities

Since its inception, the ordinariate has grown to include 14 Australian congregations in Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia and New South Wales. [21]

Outside Australia

The ordinariate has also begun to form in Japan, where it has presently two congregations. In February 2015, a congregation of the Traditional Anglican Church of Japan was received as the Ordinariate Community of St Augustine of Canterbury in Tokyo, the first ordinariate community in Asia. [22] In June 2016, another priest was ordained for the Ordinariate Community of St Laurence of Canterbury in Hiroshima. [23]

The ordinariate is also present in Guam with one parish.

Congregations

The ordinariate has 17 congregations across Australia, Japan and Oceania. [24]

Liturgical calendar

Ordinaries

The following individuals have served as ordinary or apostolic administrator of the personal ordinariate: [20]

OrderNameTitleDate installedTerm endedTerm of officeReason for term end
1Monsignor Harry Entwistle Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross15 June 201227 August 20197 years, 73 daysRetired
2Monsignor Carl Reid Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross27 August 20191 July 20233 years, 308 daysResigned
3Bishop Anthony Randazzo Apostolic Administrator of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross1 July 2023present210 days(incumbent)

See also

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