Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Territory | England and Wales |
| Information | |
| Rite | Latin Rite |
| Established | 15 January 2011 |
| Patron | Blessed John Henry Newman |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Pope Benedict XVI |
| Ordinary | The Revd Keith Newton |
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]
Membership
Father Keith Newton, the former Bishop of Richborough, was ordained a Catholic priest and appointed the first Ordinary on 15 January 2011.[1] On the same day two other former Anglican bishops—Andrew Burnham, the former Bishop of Ebbsfleet and John Broadhurst, the former Bishop of Fulham—were ordained as priests in the ordinariate.
The retired Bishop of Richborough, Edwin Barnes, has also resigned from the Church of England and plans to be ordained into the ordinariate in March 2011.[3] Up to fifty Church of England priests were expected to join the ordinariate.[4]
References
- ^ a b "Holy See Press Office Statement about the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in England and Wales" (Press release). Holy See Press Office. 15 January 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
- ^ Nichols, Vincent (15 January 2011). "Archbishop Nichols' homily: Ordinations to the Personal Ordinariate". Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
- ^ Barnes, Edwin (6 January 2011). "Amazing (G)Race". Ancient Richborough. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
- ^ Butt, Riazat (19 November 2010). "Anglican parishes will be without priests as 50 prepare to defect to Rome". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
External links
- Text of the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus
- Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham at Catholic-Hierarchy.org