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 Ordinariate for foreign students in Belgium
See also
From the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia
Ordinariate — (From Ordinary, q.v.).
This term is used in speaking collectively of all the various organs through which an ordinary, and especially a bishop, exercises the different forms of his authority. This word, which is employed particularly in Germany, does not occur in strict canonical language; but it is exactly equivalent to what canonists call the curia. Just as the pope is officially responsible for all that is done in his name and by his authority in the different branches of the Roman Curia (congregations of cardinals, tribunals, offices), so, too, an ordinary and especially a bishop bears the official responsibility of whatever is done, in his name and with his authority, by the persons or committees composing his curia, who are the organs of his administration (vicar-general, official, judges, secretaries, councils of various kinds). Whatever may be the exact form of this administration in each diocese, it is still the diocesan administration and the Ordinariate. (See Bishop; Diocesan Chancery; Official; Vicar-General; Vicar Capitular.)
References
- Back to citation See, for example, the Anglican Military Ordinariate in Canada.
- Back to citation ... 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
- Back to citation "Bishop Stephen Lopes of the Anglican Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter..." "Pillar Horse Race". The Pillar. 11 November 2021. Retrieved 12 November 2021.