ordinariate

noun

1. The office of a Roman Catholic ordinary, especially a bishop.

name

1. The personal ordinariates established in 2011–12 for Anglicans entering the Catholic Church, considered as a collective.

   “Indeed, only former Anglicans can offer themselves for priestly formation in the Ordinariate (art. 10 §4).”

   “[…] the recently promulgated Missal for Ordinariate usage, under the title Divine Worship, represents a momentous development in the history of Catholic worship […]”

   “But membership growth of this kind is limited, and many of the parochial communities of the Ordinariate have not yet achieved the sufficient size and stability necessary for long-term sustainability.”