Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
| Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Ecclesiastical province | Immediate |
| Full professor | Keith Newton |
| founding | 2011 |
| surface | 151,156 km² |
| Parishes | 40 |
| Residents | 53,334,785 |
| Catholics | 3,500 |
| proportion of | 0% |
| Diocesan priest | 86 |
| Catholics per priest | 41 |
| Religious sisters | 9 |
| rite | Anglican Use of the Roman Rite ; Roman rite allowed |
| Liturgical language | English |
| address | 24 Golden Square, London W1F 9JR |
| Website | [1] |
The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham ( Latin Ordinariatus Personalis Nostrae Dominae Walsinghamensis , English Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham ) is a diocesan-like institution of the Roman Catholic Church in the area of England , Scotland and Wales for believers and groups formerly the Church of England and the Church in Wales , now in full communion with the Catholic Church, without giving up their particular Anglican heritage.
The personal ordinariate was established on January 15, 2011 by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in coordination with the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales in accordance with the norms of Pope Benedict XVI. on November 4, 2009 enacted Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus established. Keith Newton , a former Anglican bishop who officially entered full communion with the Catholic Church on January 1, 2011, and was ordained a Roman Catholic priest on the day the staff ordinariate was established, was appointed first professor . On the same date, former Anglican Bishops Andrew Burnham and John Broadhurst were ordained priests for the staff ordinariate.
The name of the personal ordinariate refers to the pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham . For patron who was beatified John Henry Newman determined. Under canon law , the Ordinary of Our Lady of Walsingham is directly subordinate to the Holy See .
The number of the faithful in the ordinariate is comparatively small, that of the priests is comparatively unusually large.
- coat of arms
Miraculous image of Our Lady of Walsingham
coat of arms
Web links
- Entry on Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham on gcatholic.org (English)
- Entry for Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham on catholic-hierarchy.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ erezione di Ordinariato Personale di Our Lady of Walsingham e nomina del primo Ordinario , in: Holy See Press Office: Daily Bulletin of 15 January 2011th
- ↑ Without episcopal ordination, as he is married and a celibacy dispensation for bishops is generally not granted: Press release of the Holy See, January 15, 2011 ( Memento of June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ This is the statue created by Marcel Barbeau (* 1925), crowned in 1954 by the apostolic legate Gerald Patrick O'Hara and blessed by Pope John Paul II in Wembley in 1982 in the Slipper Chapel , one and a half kilometers from the historic sanctuary of Walsingham , which has been the Roman Catholic Marian pilgrimage center since 1934: engl. WP , evidence there.