Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham

The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham (Latin: Ordinariatus Personalis nostrae Dominae Walsinghamensis, English:. Personnel Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham ) is a diocesan similar institution of the Roman Catholic Church on the territory of England, Scotland and Wales for members and groups the Church of England and the Church in Wales who wish to return to full communion with the Catholic Church, without giving up their special Anglican heritage.

The Personal Ordinariate was on 15 January 2011 by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in consultation with the Episcopal Conference of England and Wales in accordance with the standards of Pope Benedict XVI. 4 November 2009 enacted Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus built. For the first Professor Keith Newton was appointed, who was officially entered as a former Anglican Bishop on 1 January 2011 in full communion with the Catholic Church and had received the Roman Catholic priest on the day of the establishment of the Personal Ordinariate. On the same date received, the former Anglican bishops Andrew Burnham and John Broadhurst ordained priest for the Personal Ordinariate.

The name of the Personal Ordinariate refers to the pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. Patron of Blessed John Henry Newman was determined. Canon law is subject to the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham directly to the Holy See.