Coat of Arms Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross

The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross is a

personal ordinariate A personal ordinariate for former Anglicans, shortened as personal ordinariate or Anglican ordinariate,"...the liturgies approved for the Anglican ordinariates..." "Bishop Stephen Lopes of the Anglican Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter..." i ...

of the

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of the

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primarily within the territory of the

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for groups of Anglicans who desire

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with the Catholic Church in Australia and Asia. Personal ordinariates, like

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s and

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s, are immediately subject to the

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in Rome. The motto of the ordinariate is ''Mea Gloria Fides'' (My Faith is my Glory). The current ordinary is Carl Reid, who succeeded the first ordinary,

Harry Entwistle Harry Entwistle (born 31 May 1940) is an English-born Australian priest of the Catholic Church who was the first ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross (2012–2019). Early life Entwistle was born on 31 May 19 ...

, in 2019.

Structure

A personal ordinariate established under the apostolic constitution ''

Anglicanorum coetibus A personal ordinariate for former Anglicans, shortened as personal ordinariate or Anglican ordinariate,"...the liturgies approved for the Anglican ordinariates..." "Bishop Stephen Lopes of the Anglican Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter..." i ...

'' is canonically equivalent to a

. The faithful of the ordinariate are led by an ordinary. The ordinary may be either a bishop, if celibate, or priest, if married. The ordinary of a personal ordinariate is the equivalent to a diocesan bishop, and thus wears the same ecclesiastical attire and uses the same pontifical insignia (

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, and episcopal ring) as a diocesan bishop, even if not a bishop.

History

In the first decade of the 21st century, a number of bishops from the

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and the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), a global "

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" body, independently approached the Vatican seeking some manner of corporate reunion that would preserve their autonomy and their ecclesial structure within the Catholic Church. Pope

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promulgated an apostolic constitution, ''Anglicanorum coetibus'', permitting erection of

s equivalent to dioceses, on 4 November 2009. The Vatican subsequently erected three ordinariates: the

Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in England and Wales is a personal ordinariate in the Latin Church of the Catholic Church immediately exempt, being directly subject to the Holy See. It is within the territory of the Catholic B ...

in the territory of the episcopal conference of England and Wales on 15 January 2011, the

Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter is a special Catholic diocese for Anglican and Methodist converts in the United States and Canada. It allows these parishioners to maintain elements of Anglican liturgy and tradition in thei ...

in the territory of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on 1 January 2012 and the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross in the territory of Australian Conference of Catholic Bishops on 15 June 2012. The decree erecting the Personal Ordinariate of the Southern Cross designated the Church of Saints Ninian and Chad in Perth as the principal church of the ordinariate, which fulfills the same role as the

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church of a diocese. This church building previously housed a congregation of the

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(ACCA), the Australian province of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC). Pope Benedict XVI concurrently appointed

, a former bishop of the ACCA who received ordination as a presbyter of the Catholic Church on the same day, as the first ordinary. , the ordinariate has 18 congregations throughout Australia and Japan. The ordinariate announced that the Church of Torres Strait, previously a separate

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of the TAC, was coming into the ordinariate substantially intact and was going to form a territorial

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in that region. However, the Church of Torres Strait later decided not to join the ordinariate. In spite of this, a parish on

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in the

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chose to enter the ordinariate anyway and a former priest of the Church of Torres Strait was ordained as a transitional deacon in June 2018 by James Foley of Cairns. On 26 March 2019, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of the first ordinary, Harry Entwistle, after he reached retirement, and appointed as ordinary Carl Reid, until then the dean of the Deanery of St John the Baptist (Canada) of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter. Reid was installed on 27 August 2019.

Communities

Since its inception, the ordinariate has grown to include 14 Australian congregations in

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and

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External to Australia

The ordinariate has also begun to form in

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, where it has presently two congregations. In February 2015, a congregation of the Traditional Anglican Church of Japan was received as the Ordinariate Community of

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in Tokyo, the first ordinariate community in

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. In June 2016, another priest was ordained for the Ordinariate Community of St Laurence of Canterbury in Hiroshima. In the

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, a small ordinariate community regularly hosts an ecumenical

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according to the Anglican Use of Our Lady of the Southern Cross in the

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Liturgical calendar

References

External links

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