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Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham

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Location
TerritoryEngland and Wales & Scotland
Information
RiteLatin Rite
EstablishedJanuary 15, 2011
Patron saintBlessed John Henry Newman
Current leadership
PopePope Benedict XVI

The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham is a personal ordinariate of the Roman Catholic Church within the territory of England and Wales, but immediately subject to the Holy See. It was created on 15 January 2011 for groups of former Anglican clergy and faithful within England and Wales in accordance with the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus of Pope Benedict XVI.

The personal ordinariate is set up in such a way that "corporate reunion" of former Anglicans with the Catholic Church is possible, while also preserving elements of a "distinctive Anglican patrimony".[1] The ordinariate was placed under the protection of Our Lady of Walsingham and under the patronage of the Blessed John Henry Newman, also a convert from Anglicanism.[2]

Three former bishops of the Anglican Church were ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood on 15 January 2011, the same day that the ordinariate was established. Although, under Roman Catholic policy, these men cannot be consecrated to the episcopacy because they are married, Pope Benedict XVI appointed one of them, Father Keith Newton, to be the first Ordinary for the personal ordinariate.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Holy See press statement, Jan. 13, 2011
  2. ^ Archbishop Nichols' homily: Ordinations to the Personal Ordinariate
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