personal ordinariate

English

Etymology

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

personal ordinariate (plural personal ordinariates)

  1. (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.
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