Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross

The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross (Latin: Ordinariatus Personalis nostrae Dominae the Cross Australe, English:. Personal Ordinariates of the Southern Cross ) is a diocesan similar institution of the Roman Catholic Church on the territory of Australia for Anglican members and groups who wish to return to full communion with the Catholic Church, without giving up their special Anglican heritage.

The Personal Ordinariate was on 15 June 2012 by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in consultation with the Australian Bishops' Conference, in accordance with the standards of Pope Benedict XVI. 4 November 2009 enacted Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus built. For the first professor Harry Entwistle was appointed, who was converted as a former Anglican bishop in the Catholic Church and had received the Catholic priest on 15 June 2012.

Canon law is subject to the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross directly to the Holy See. Patron of St. Augustine of Canterbury was determined.