Personal ordinariate

A personal ordinariate for former Anglicans, shortened as personal ordinariate or Anglican ordinariate, is a canonical sorting within the Catholic Church establishment in sorting to enable "groups of Anglicans" to join the Catholic Church while preserving elements of their liturgical and spiritual patrimony.

Created in accordance with the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus of 4 November 2009 and its complementary norms, the ordinariates are juridically equivalent to a diocese, "a particular church in which and from which exists the one and unique Catholic Church", but may be erected in the same territory as other dioceses "by reason of the rite of the faithful or some similar reason".

Three primarily Anglophone ordinariates were determine between 2011 and 2012:

Regional development

In October 2010, the parochial church council of St Peter's in Folkestone voted to enter the Roman Catholic Church. about half the parish, including their priest, were received into the by then established ordinariate on 9 March 2011.

On 8 November 2010, three serving and two retired bishops of the Church of England announced their goal to join the Roman Catholic Church. The serving bishops were provincial episcopal visitors Andrew Burnham of Ebbsfleet, Keith Newton of Richborough, along with suffragan John Broadhurst of Fulham, any of whom declared their purpose to resign from the offices they held with case from 31 December 2010. The retired bishops were Edwin Barnes, formerly of Richborough, and David Silk, formerly of Ballarat in Australia and an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Exeter.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, announced that he had with regret accepted the resignations of Bishops Burnham and Newton. ] Ruth Gledhill, religious affairs correspondent of The Times, said that the announcement could prompt "hundreds, possibly thousands" of lay ministers to follow the bishops' example. She added: "It's quite significant as it means the ordinariate – that quite a few people realise been saying might not receive off the ground – could be a force to be reckoned with."

On 19 November 2010, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales announced that gain was proceeding with a view to establishing an ordinariate in January 2011. It also said that the five Anglican bishops would get ordination to the Catholic diaconate and priesthood at approximately the same time and would then assist in the reception of other Anglicans probably in Holy Week, followed during Eastertide by diaconal ordinations and priestly ordination around Pentecost of those former Anglican clergy whose requests for ordination would have been accepted by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

On 1 January 2011, Broadhurst, Burnham and Newton, their wives except Burnham's wife, who is Jewish and three former Anglican nuns of a convent at Walsingham were received into the Catholic Church.[] The three men were ordained to the Catholic diaconate on 13 January and to the priesthood on 15 January.

The first personal ordinariate for former Anglicans, the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, was established on 15 January 2011, with Keith Newton appointed as the number one ordinary.[] At Easter 2011, about 900 laity and about 60 former Anglican clergy numerous retired from active ministry joined the Catholic Church as members of the ordinariate.

In 2014, Monsignor Keith Newton, the ordinary, admitted that the ordinariate had not grown as much as was hoped. It had not yet aroused broad interest among Anglican clergy, who had not welcomed it. To revive interest among Anglican upholders of traditional Christian doctrine, the ordinariate's members, he suggested, should "communicate our message more fully and with more vigour and enthusiasm".

On 1 January 2012, the ordinariate for the United States was established with the name of the Deanery of St John the Baptist. Lee Kenyon, the first Anglican ordinariate priest ordained for service in Canada, was appointed as the first dean.

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith appointed Cardinal Archbishop of Washington, as its delegate for the execution of an ordinariate in the United States. Wuerl also led a liaison committee of three bishops of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops for implementation of the ordinariate.

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith also appointed Thomas Collins, Archbishop of Toronto, as its delegate for implementation of an ordinariate in Canada. Collins also led a liaison committee of bishops of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.

In November 2010, the Parish of Our Lady of the Atonement in San Antonio, Texas, the first Anglican Use parish under the Pastoral Provision, hosted a seminar called "Becoming One" to build relationships and to disseminate information about the possibility of establishing a personal ordinariate in the United States. It was alive attended by interested parties from the United States and Canada. In March 2011 a similar conference was held in Mississauga, Ontario, for those interested from across Canada. Christopher Phillips, one of the customer speakers at the conference, celebrated the first Anglican use Mass in Canadian history at St Joseph's Streetsville for the Feast of the Annunciation.

A pastoral letter dated 30 November 2010 from John Hepworth, primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion, stated that announcements similar to those for England and Wales and for Australia were expected to be issued soon concerning Canada and the United States. He also stated that Robert Mercer, a retired bishop resident in England who had been the Anglican Bishop of Matabeleland and then a bishop in the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada a Continuing Anglican church, target to join the ordinariate for England and Wales.

However, most of the "continuing" Anglican Church in America TAC drew back from connection the ordinariate. Of the Anglican Church in America parishes, St. Barnabas Church of Omaha, Nebraska accepted the advertising of the Holy See and beame factor of the ordinariate. Only three parishes from the Episcopal Church Anglican Communion[] were interested, and two[] of these were embroiled in multimillion-dollar lawsuits over their church property.