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
- ^ 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 ISBNÂ 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.