Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter
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Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter Ordinariatus Personalis Cathedrae Sancti Petri |
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| Location | |
| Country | United States Canada |
| Deaneries | Deanery of St John the Baptist |
| Statistics | |
| Parishes | 48 (2017) |
| Members | 6,700 (2017) |
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| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Rite | Roman Rite (Anglican Use) |
| Established | 1 January 2012 |
| Cathedral | Our Lady of Walsingham |
| Patroness | Our Lady of Walsingham |
| Secular priests | 62 (2016) |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Steven Joseph Lopes |
| Vicar General | Timothy Perkins |
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The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter is personal ordinariate of the Roman Catholic Church, "a structure, similar to a diocese, that was created by the Vatican in 2012 for former Anglican communities and clergy seeking to become Catholic. Once Catholic, the communities retain many aspects of their Anglican heritage, liturgy and traditions". The ordinariate uses a missal called Divine Worship, a variation of the Roman Rite commonly referred to as the "Anglican Use" or the "Ordinariate Use", which incorporates aspects of the Anglican liturgical tradition.
Based in Houston, Texas, with the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham as it principal church, the ordinariate includes 47 parishes throughout the United States and Canada.
Originally, its territory was the same as that of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). However, it was announced on 7 December 2012 that the Holy See, after consulting the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), had extended its territory to include Canada also. Accordingly, the head of the ordinariate is a full member of both episcopal conferences.
The second personal ordinariate to be established after the promulgation of Anglicanorum coetibus, the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter is, according to the decree of its erection, juridically 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 a bishop, if celibate, or priest, if married. Initially, the Holy See named all married ordinaries as apostolic protonotaries—that is, monsignori of the highest rank—soon after the respective appointments to that office. In the case of an ordinary who is an apostolic protonotary, the ordinary holds the same power of governance over the ordinariate that a diocesan bishop holds over a diocese. 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. In 2016, the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter became the first personal ordinariate to receive a bishop as its ordinary when Steven J. Lopes was installed.
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