Ordinariate

See also: ordinariate

English

Proper noun

the Ordinariate

1. (Roman Catholicism) The personal ordinariates established in 2011–12 for Anglicans entering the Catholic Church, considered as a collective.
   • 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:

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

   • 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:

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

   • 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:

     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.