personal ordinariate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From ordinariate, the office or jurisdiction of a church ordinary; personal by analogy with personal prelature, implying that members are part of the ordinariate as individual persons, rather than because they live in a particular diocesan territory.
Noun[edit]
personal ordinariate (plural personal ordinariates)
- (Roman Catholicism) A canonical structure equivalent to a diocese, administered by an ordinary and providing for the pastoral needs of former Anglicans who have joined the Catholic Church.