Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross
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Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross Ordinariatus Personalis Dominae Nostrae Crucis Australis 南十字星の聖母の属人教区 |
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| Location | |
| Country | Australia |
| Territory | Australia, Japan |
| Statistics | |
| Parishes | 15 |
| Members | 2,000 (2014) |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic |
| Rite | Roman Rite (Anglican Use) |
| Established | 15 June 2012 |
| Cathedral | Church of St Ninian and St Chad, Perth (principal church) |
| Patron | St Augustine of Canterbury |
| Secular priests | 14 (2014) |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Ordinary | Harry Entwistle PA |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Immediately subject to the Holy See |
| Website | |
| ordinariate.org.au | |
The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross is a personal ordinariate of the Roman Catholic Church within the territory of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference for groups of Anglicans who desire full communion with the Catholic Church in Australia and Asia. As a personal ordinariate it is immediately subject to the Holy See in Rome.
A personal ordinariate established under the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus is canonically equivalent to a diocese. The faithful of the ordinariate are led by an ordinary who is named directly by the pope. The ordinary may be either a bishop, if celibate, or priest, if married. So far, the pope has named all married ordinaries as apostolic protonotaries—that is, monsignori of the highest rank—soon after the respective appointments to that office. The only practical difference is that a bishop may ordain clergy for the ordinariate personally, whereas an ordinary who is not a bishop must ask a bishop to ordain clergy of the ordinariate on his behalf in the same manner as the major superior of a clerical religious order.
The ordinary of a personal ordinariate is the equivalent to a diocesan bishop, and thus wears the same ecclesiastical attire and uses the same pontifical insignia (mitre, crosier, pectoral cross, and episcopal ring) as a diocesan bishop, even if he has not a bishop. The ordinary is also, ex officio, a full member of the episcopal conference(s) of the territory of the ordinariate, even if he is not a bishop.
In the first decade of the 21st century, a number of bishops from the Church of England and the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), a global "continuing Anglican" body, independently approached the Vatican seeking some manner of corporate reunion that would preserve their autonomy and their ecclesial structure within the Catholic Church. Pope Benedict XVI promulgated an apostolic constitution, Anglicanorum coetibus, permitting erection of personal ordinariates equivalent to dioceses, on 4 November 2009. The Vatican subsequently erected three ordinariates: the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in the territory of the episcopal conference of England and Wales on 15 January 2011, the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter in the territory of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on 1 January 2012 and the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross in the territory of Australian Conference of Catholic Bishops on 15 June 2012.
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