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  • noun The office of a Roman Catholic ordinary (especially a bishop)

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  • Anglicans who object to plans for women bishops are considering the Vatican's invitation to become part of a special section - an "ordinariate" - within the church in England and Wales.

    Clerical Whispers 2009

  • The ordinariate is the archiepiscopal metropolitan court; the archiepiscopal diocesan court is termed the officialate (6 members).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • The bishop, cathedral dean, and the six capitulars constitute also the ordinariate; the legal adviser of the ordinariate is the syndicus, a lay official who is likewise director of the chancellery of the ordinariate, consisting of six members.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • The Vatican announced last month that its first so-called ordinariate for Anglican converts would be established in Britain.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2010

  • "ordinariate" - a special section for Anglican converts - had been made before the bishops travelled to Rome.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Three Anglo-Catholic bishops in the Church of England including the Bishop of Fulham, the Rt Rev John Broadhurst, were reported last weekend to have met advisers of the Pope in Rome to discuss setting up an "ordinariate" under a scheme catering for disaffected Anglicans within the Roman Catholic Church.

    icCheshireOnline 2010

  • About 500 members of Forward in Faith, the leading traditionalist grouping, will be in London to debate Pope Benedict XVI's offer of an Anglican "ordinariate" or diocese to operate under a new Apostolic Constitution.

    Latest Articles 2009

  • The new "ordinariate" would permit a "pattern of Catholic life" with space for some of the patrimony of the Anglican community that was "consistent with the Catholic faith".

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

  • They said: "Of course the ordinariate is a new thing, and not all of us are trailblazers or can imagine what it might be like.

    CNS latest top stories 2010

  • Hard on his heels came word that St Peter's parochial church council (PCC) had decided to seek a meeting with Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who is also their diocesan bishop, with a view to joining the ordinariate proposed by the pope a year ago.

    Church of England parish sings battle hymns as it plans move to Rome Stephen Bates 2010

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