ordinariate

plural ordinariates

1. The office of a Roman Catholic ordinary, especially a bishop.

1. CatholicismThe personal ordinariates established in 2011–12 for Anglicans entering the Catholic Church, considered as a collective.

   Indeed, only former Anglicans can offer themselves for priestly formation in the Ordinariate (art. 10 §4).

   2013, Gerard Mannion, “A (Strange) Sort of Homecoming?”, in Martyn Percy, Robert Boak Slocum, editors, Point of Balance: The Weight and Measure of Anglicanism, page 116

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   […] the recently promulgated Missal for Ordinariate usage, under the title Divine Worship, represents a momentous development in the history of Catholic worship […]

   2018, Clinton Allen Brand, “Very Members Incorporate: Reflections on the Sacral Language of Divine Worship”, in Uwe Michael Lang, editor, The Fullness of Divine Worship: The Sacred Liturgy and its Renewal, page 197

   But membership growth of this kind is limited, and many of the parochial communities of the Ordinariate have not yet achieved the sufficient size and stability necessary for long-term sustainability.

   2021, Timothy P. Perkins, “The evangelizing mission of the Ordinariate”, in Tracey Rowland, editor, The Anglican Patrimony in Catholic Communion: The Gift of the Ordinariates, page 65