Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham

Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham Ordinariatus Personalis Dominae Nostrae Valsinghamensis in Anglia et Cambria
Coat of Arms of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
Location
Country	United Kingdom
Territory	Great Britain
Statistics
Parishes	1
Congregations	55
Members	3,500 (2016)
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite (Anglican Use)
Established	15 January 2011
Patron	John Henry Newman
Secular priests	86
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Ordinary	Keith Newton
Episcopal Vicars	John Broadhurst Andrew Burnham
Website
ordinariate.org.uk

The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in England and Wales is a personal ordinariate of the Roman Catholic Church immediately subject to the Holy See within the territory of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, of which its ordinary is a member, and encompassing Scotland also. It was established on 15 January 2011 for groups of former Anglicans in England and Wales in accordance with the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus of Pope Benedict XVI.

The personal ordinariate is set up in such a way that "corporate reunion" of former Anglicans with the Catholic Church is possible while also preserving elements of a "distinctive Anglican patrimony". The ordinariate was placed under the title of Our Lady of Walsingham and under the patronage of John Henry Newman, a former Anglican himself.

Roman Catholic church buildings throughout England, Scotland and Wales are used by the ordinariate alongside the established congregations. The Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and Saint Gregory in Warwick Street, Soho, London, which belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster, has been designated for the ordinariate's exclusive use from Lent in 2013.

The use of Church of England buildings by the ordinariate requires permission from the relevant Anglican bishop; permission has been denied in at least one case.

The apostolic constitution that allows for the institution of personal ordinariates for Anglicans who join the Roman Catholic Church was released on 9 November 2009, after being announced on 20 October 2009 by Cardinal William Levada at a press conference in Rome.