Ordinariate
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:
- an ordinariate for the faithful of Eastern rites in one or more countries (for Catholics of Armenian or Byzantine rite, usually)
- a military ordinariate, for the troops of a nation
- a personal ordinariate, also known as an Anglican ordinariate[2][3] (a Catholic jurisdiction for those of the Anglican patrimony)
- a missionary jurisdiction, the Eastern Catholic equivalent of an apostolic prefecture, e.g. the former Ordinariate of Asmara
- the diocesan curia (in German use [Ordinariat], cf. English chancery)
- an ordinariate for an academic community, notably the former (unique?) Ordinariate for foreign students in Belgium
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ See, for example, the Anglican Military Ordinariate in Canada.
- ^ ... 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
- ^ "Bishop Stephen Lopes of the Anglican Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter..." "Pillar Horse Race". www.pillarcatholic.com. 11 November 2021. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
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