Personnel Ordinariate Kathedra Petri
| Personnel Ordinariate Kathedra Petri | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Country | United States , Canada |
| Ecclesiastical province | Immediate |
| Diocesan bishop | Steven Joseph Lopes |
| Professor Emeritus | Jeffrey N. Steenson |
| Vicar General | Timothy Perkins |
| founding | 2012 |
| surface | 9,629,091 km² |
| Residents | 311,484,627 |
| Catholics | 6,000 |
| proportion of | 0% |
| Diocesan priest | 40 |
| Catholics per priest | 150 |
| rite | Divine Worship Use or Ordinariate Use of the Roman Rite ; Roman rite allowed |
| Liturgical language | English |
| cathedral | Our Lady of Walsingham (Houston) |
| Website | www.usordinariate.org |
The Personal Ordinariate Kathedra Petri ( Latin Ordinariatus Personalis Cathedrae Sancti Petri , English Personal Ordinariate of The Chair of Saint Peter ) is a diocesan-like institution of the Roman Catholic Church that was created in the territory of the United States and Canada for Catholics of the Anglican tradition. It enables believers and groups from churches of the Anglican Communion (especially the Episcopal Church of the United States of America ) to have full communion with the Catholic Church without giving up their particular Anglican heritage.
history
The Personal Ordinariate was January 1, 2012 by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith , in consultation with the Episcopal Conference of the United States in accordance with the norms of by Pope Benedict XVI. on November 4, 2009 enacted Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus established.
Jeffrey N. Steenson was appointed first full professor of staff . Since he is married and a celibacy dispensation for bishops is not granted, he was not ordained a bishop.
His successor, Steven Joseph Lopes , who was appointed in autumn 2015, is an unmarried Roman Catholic cleric and not a convert from Anglicanism, so that, unlike Steenson, he was also ordained a bishop on February 2, 2016 and is second professor and first bishop of the staff ordinariate .
The number of the faithful in the ordinariate is comparatively small, that of the priests is comparatively unusually large.
The name of the personal ordinariate refers to the feast Kathedra Petri , which contains the power of authority of the Apostle Peter and his successors over the whole Church. Under canon law , the personal ordinariate Kathedra Petri is directly subordinate to the Holy See . The headquarters of the staff ordinariate is in Houston , Texas , Our Lady of Walsingham .
Web links
- Entry on Personal Ordinariate of The Chair of Saint Peter on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Entry on Personal Ordinariate of The Chair of Saint Peter on gcatholic.org (English)
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ RINUNCE E NOMINE, 01.01.2012 - Erezione di Ordinariato Personale di Chair of St. Peter e nomina del primo Ordinario ( Memento of July 29, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) , in: Press Office of the Holy See : Daily Bulletin from 1. January 2012.
- ↑ Decree of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on the establishment of the personal ordinariate Kathedra Petri ( Memento of September 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), January 1, 2012 (PDF; 321 kB).
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