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Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter

Ordinariatus Personalis
Cathedrae Sancti Petri
Coat of arms
Standort
LandUnited States
Canada
DeaneriesDeanery of St John the Baptist
Statistics
Parishes41 (2019)[1]
Mitglieder6,040 (2019)[2]
Information
DenominationCatholic Church
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteAnglican Use of the Roman Rite
EstablishedJanuary 1, 2012
CathedralOur Lady of Walsingham
PatronessOur Lady of Walsingham
Secular priests74 (2019) [3]
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopSteven J. Lopes
Vicar GeneralTimothy Perkins
Website
ordinariate.net Edit this at Wikidata

The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter is a personal ordinariate in the Latin Church of the Catholic Church for priests and laypeople from an Anglican background, that enables them to retain elements of their Anglican patrimony after entering the Catholic Church. Its territory extends over the United States and Canada. The personal ordinariate is immediately exempt to the Holy See. Former Methodists and former members of communions of "Anglican heritage" such as the United Church of Canada are also included.[4] The liturgy of the ordinariates, known as the Anglican Use, is a form of the Roman Rite with the introduction of traditional Anglican elements.

The ordinariate describes itself as "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".[5] It has also been described as "a special kind of diocese confined to specific national territory – much like a military ordinariate that serves members of a national armed forces".[6] The ordinariate uses a missal called Divine Worship: The Missal, a variation of the Roman Missal officially referred to as the "Divine Worship or Ordinariate Use",[7] which incorporates aspects of the Anglican liturgical tradition.[8]

Based in Houston, Texas, with the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham as its principal church, the ordinariate includes about 40 parishes and missions throughout the United States and Canada.[9]

Originally, its territory was the same as that of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.[10] However, it was announced on December 7, 2012 that the Holy See, after consulting the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, had extended its territory to include Canada also.[11] Accordingly, the head of the ordinariate is a full member of both episcopal conferences.[5]

Structure

The second personal ordinariate to be established after the promulgation of the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter is, according to the decree of its erection, juridically equivalent to a diocese.[12] 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.[10] 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 with the episcopal ordination and installation of Steven J. Lopes as its second ordinary.[9][13]

The ordinary of a personal ordinariate is canonically equivalent to a diocesan bishop, and thus wears the same ecclesiastical attire and uses the same pontifical insignia (mitre, crosier, pectoral cross, and episcopal ring) as a diocesan bishop even if he is not a bishop.[14] The ordinary is also, ex officio, a full member of the episcopal conference(s) of the territory of the ordinariate.[12]

History

Chancery building in Houston, Texas
Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham in Houston

Background

From the reign of Pope Pius XII if not before, popes have granted dispensations from the norm of celibacy for the ordination of married former Protestant and Anglican clergy in the Catholic Church – but the numbers were generally small so the Vatican processed those cases individually. The situation changed in the late 1970s when hundreds of former clergy of the Episcopal Church (TEC), including several who brought their congregations with them, sought ordination in the Catholic Church and, in the case of those who brought congregations with them, provision of liturgical books that followed their Anglican tradition. Pope John Paul II responded to this situation, first, by establishing a "Pastoral Provision" to facilitate processing of the large number of requests for dispensations coming from former TEC clergy the United States in 1980 and, second, by authorizing the Book of Divine Worship based on the Anglican Book of Common Prayer for use by intact communities of former Anglicans, which variously became parishes, missions, or chaplaincies of the local Roman Catholic diocese. The Vatican also prescribed the use of the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition translation of biblical texts, rather than the New American Bible translation then in use in the United States, in conjunction with the rites of the Book of Divine Worship. The Book of Divine Worship was officially deemed to be an interim work, authorized ad experimentum pending completion of a final edition, but there was no further work on "approved liturgical books of the Anglican tradition" in the decades that followed.

In the first decade of the 21st century, a number of bishops from the Church of England and the bishops of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), a global "continuing Anglican" body, independently approached the Vatican seeking some manner of corporate reunion that would preserve their autonomy and their ecclesial structure within the Catholic Church. Pope Benedict XVI promulgated the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, permitting erection of personal ordinariates equivalent to dioceses, on November 4, 2009.[15]

Formation

Pursuant to Anglicanorum coetibus, the Holy See subsequently erected three ordinariates within the next three years in countries where interest among prospective Anglican clergy and communities was strongest: 1) the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in the territory of the episcopal conference of England and Wales on January 15, 2011, 2) the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter in the territory of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on January 1, 2012, and 3) the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross in the territory of Australian Conference of Catholic Bishops on June 15, 2012. The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter acquired extraterritorial communities in Canada.

The decree erecting the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter designated the Church of Our Lady of Walsingham in Houston as its principal church, analogous to the cathedral church of a diocese.[12] This church was home to one of the congregations that came into the church under the Pope John Paul II's Pastoral Provision of 1980, effectively transferring that parish from the Diocese of Galveston-Houston to the ordinariate. On the same day, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Jeffrey N. Steenson, who had served as Bishop of the Rio Grande of the Episcopal Church prior to his reception into full communion and ordination in the Catholic Church, as its first ordinary. Steenson was installed as ordinary on February 12, 2012 during a Mass celebrated at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston led by cardinals Daniel DiNardo and Donald Wuerl. The ordinariate began calling this church as the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham after the installation of a bishop as its second ordinary.

Growth

In the first weeks after the erection of the ordinariate, over 100 Anglican clergy applied to be Catholic priests in the ordinariate, and over 1,400 lay people joined.[15] Within the first year of the ordinariate's existence, the number of communities joining the ordinariate quickly grew to nearly three dozen. As of the spring of 2017, there are 43 parishes and missions (canonically, "quasi-parishes"[16]) within the ordinariate.[17]

Mount Calvary Church in Baltimore voted to join the ordinariate in 2010. In December 2011, the parish had settled in court with the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland over the church and associated properties. Thus, on January 21, 2012, Mount Calvary parish was received together as the first ordinariate parish in North America.[18]

On April 19, 2012 the Archbishop of Ottawa Terrence Prendergast received 30 Anglicans, including Carl Reid, until then a bishop of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada (ACCC), into the Catholic church. The same week in the Diocese of Victoria another 23 Anglicans, including Peter Wilkinson, until then the Diocesan Bishop of the ACCCa, were received into the Catholic church. These new arrivals immediately formed communities of the ordinariate.[19]

On June 26, 2012, Randy Sly, a former archbishop in the Charismatic Episcopal Church, was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Paul Loverde in Potomac Falls.[20] On September 16, 2012, the Cathedral of the Incarnation, the cathedral of the Diocese of Eastern United States of the Anglican Church in America, was received into the ordinariate along with their bishop, Louis Campese.[21] After the reception of several Anglican communities in Canada, the ordinariate formed a deanery for Canada, the Deanery of Saint John the Baptist, on December 7, 2012.

On February 4, 2015, the ordinariate dedicated a new chancery building, on property adjacent to its principal church (which would become its cathedral with the installation of its first bishop in 2016), Our Lady of Walsingham, in Houston.[22] The chancery complex includes offices for the Bishop and his staff, conference rooms and gathering areas, a Great Hall, as well as meeting rooms. Cardinal William Levada, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, officiated at the dedication, accompanied by Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston–Houston and Cardinal DiNardo's predecessor, Archbishop Joseph Fiorenza.

On November 24, 2015, Pope Francis appointed Steven J. Lopes the first bishop of the personal ordinariate. It was announced that on February 2, 2016 that he would succeed Steenson.[9] This appointment was the first time a bishop has been named to any of the world's three personal ordinariates for former Anglicans.[13] With the appointment of a bishop to head the ordinariate, the principal church was elevated to a cathedral, the third in Houston.[9]

In 2017, the ordinariate inducted the last of the Anglican Use parishes originally erected under the provisions of the 1980 Pastoral Provision with the decree, on March 21, by the Holy See that "all parishes of the Pastoral Provision are to be incorporated into the Ordinariate."[23] With this decree, Our Lady of the Atonement in San Antonio – the first and also largest of the Pastoral Provision parishes – became a parish of the ordinariate, along with its clergy.[24] Our Lady of the Atonement also brought with it the ordinariate's first K–12 Catholic school, The Atonement Academy, with over five hundred students enrolled. The other remaining Pastoral Provision parish, the Congregation of St. Athanasius in Boston, also joined the ordinariate pursuant to the Holy See's decree.[25]

Liturgy and Eucharist

Further information: Divine Worship: The Missal and Divine Worship: Daily Office

Upon erection of the first ordinariates, the Vatican established the commission Anglicanae Traditiones to prepare liturgical books of the Anglican tradition for their use, and also for use of the communities of former Anglicans who remain under the jurisdiction of their local dioceses. This commission, under the direction of Steven Lopes, first published Divine Worship: Occasional Services containing rites for baptisms, weddings, and funerals, followed by Divine Worship: The Missal containing the rite for Mass to replace the respective rites in the Book of Divine Worship. The ordinariate missal took effect on the first Sunday of Advent (November 27) in 2015. Lopes, who was in Houston following the announcement of his appointment as the new ordinary, was the principal celebrant of the first Mass at the ordinariate's principal church according to the new missal.[9][13] The new rites retain the use of the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition translation of scriptural texts.

In his pastoral letter, "Come, Holy Ghost," released February 14, 2020, Lopes revealed the ordinariate would become the 14th Latin Church episcopal jurisdiction in the U.S. to make the reception of Holy Eucharist normally follow Confirmation, an arrangement of the sacraments often described as "restored order", with a focus on involving the child's family in sacramental preparation. Lopes said the norm in the ordinariate will be to admit a child to Confirmation and Eucharist "around the age of discretion, [according to canon law] being sometime between the ages of 7 and 11."[26][27]

In late 2020, the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter published an Anglican Use form of the Liturgy of the Hours, the Divine Worship: Daily Office: North American Edition. The Personal Ordinariates of Our Lady of Walsingham and Our Lady of the Southern Cross published their own version in late 2021, Divine Worship: Daily Office: Commonwealth Edition.

Deanery of St John the Baptist

The apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus drew significant interest in Canada, but the number of communities were too few to support a separate ordinariate for that country. Thus, Cardinal Thomas Collins, Archbishop of Toronto, approached Jeffrey N. Steenson to work out a solution that would extend the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter into Canada.

While all of this was pending, the parish of St. John the Evangelist in Calgary, Alberta, formerly of the Anglican Church of Canada (ACC), came into the full communion of the Catholic Church with its priest, Lee Kenyon, in December 2011, initially as a parish of the Diocese of Calgary with faculties to celebrate the liturgy according to the Book of Divine Worship. On April 15, 2012, former bishops Peter Wilkinson and Carl Reid of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada (ACCC), the Canadian province of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), and their congregations also came into the full communion of the Catholic Church.

In April 2012, Steenson had expressed his agreement with the idea that all groups of Canadian Anglicans who had taken or would in the future take the step of joining the Catholic Church should be organized as parishes of a deanery of the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter.[28] On December 7, 2012, the ordinariate formally erected the Deanery of Saint John the Baptist for the Canadian parishes and the ordinary appointed Kenyon as its first dean, with the approval of the Holy See and the support of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.[11] The name, first proposed by then-ACCC bishop Peter Wilkinson, is that of a patron saint of Canada whose feast was significant in the discovery of Canada by both the English and the French.

On December 8, 2012, the day after the announcement of the extension of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter to Canada, Peter Wilkinson, the former Metropolitan Bishop of Canada of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada (ACCC), was ordained to the priesthood in the Catholic Church by Bishop Richard Gagnon at St. Andrew's Cathedral in Victoria.[29] Wilkinson was later named a Prelate of Honor by Pope Benedict XVI.[30] On January 26, 2013, Carl Reid, a former ACCC bishop, was ordained by Archbishop Terrence Prendergast at the Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica in Ottawa.[31]

The Deanery of St. John the Baptist now encompasses 11 communities from New Brunswick to British Columbia.

Liturgical calendar

The liturgical calendar of the ordinariate was approved by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in early 2012. In the main, it is identical with the two current versions of the Roman liturgical calendar for the dioceses of the United States and Canada, but it has retained some elements that form part of the Anglican patrimony.[32]

In the Proper of Time:

Regarding the Proper of Saints, the ordinariate follows the proper calendar of the United States (or in the Deanery of St. John the Baptist, that of Canada), as well as the following observances:

Ändern Sie Month Day Title of the liturgy Rank Color
Added January 12 Saint Benedict Biscop, Abbot Optional Memorial White
Added February 4 Saint Gilbert of Sempringham, Religious Optional Memorial White
Elevated[a] 22 Chair of Saint Peter the Apostle Solemnity White
Added March 1 Saint David, Bishop Optional Memorial White
Elevated[b] April 23 Saint George, Martyr Memorial Red
Transferred[c] 24 Saint Adalbert, Bishop and Martyr Optional Memorial Red
Added May 4 The English Martyrs Memorial Red
Added 19 Saints Dunstan, Ethelwold, and Oswald, Bishops Optional Memorial White
Added June 9 Saint Columba, Abbot Optional Memorial White
Added 16 Saint Richard of Chichester, Bishop Optional Memorial White
Added 20 Saint Alban, protomartyr of England Optional Memorial White
Elevated[d] 22 Saints John Fisher, Bishop, and Thomas More, Martyrs Memorial Red
Transferred[e] 23 Paulinus of Nola, Bishop Optional Memorial White
Added 23 Saints Hilda, Etheldreda, and Mildred, and All Holy Nuns Optional Memorial White
Added July 9 Our Lady of the Atonement Optional Memorial White
Added August 30 Saints Margaret Clitherow, Anne Line, and Margaret Ward, Martyrs Optional Memorial Red
Added 31 Saint Aidan, Bishop, and the Saints of Lindisfarne Optional Memorial White
Added September 4 Saint Cuthbert, Bishop Optional Memorial White
Added 19 Saint Theodore of Canterbury, Bishop Optional Memorial White
Added Saint Adrian, Abbot Optional Memorial White
Added 24 Our Lady of Walsingham, Patroness of the Ordinariate Feast White
Transferred[f] October 8 Saint Denis and Companions, Martyrs Optional Memorial Red
Transferred[g] Saint John Leonardi, Priest Optional Memorial White
Added 9 Saint John Henry Newman, Priest Optional Memorial White
Added 12 Saint Wilfrid Optional Memorial White
Added 13 Saint Edward the Confessor Optional Memorial White
Added November 20 Saint Edmund, Martyr Optional Memorial Red


Ordinaries

Bishop Steven J. Lopes
  • Jeffrey N. Steenson – a married former Episcopal bishop who joined the Catholic Church in 2007, becoming a Catholic priest in 2009. He developed the education and training program for Anglican priests who wish to join the Catholic Church.[15]
    • Ordinary (February 12, 2012[12] – November 24, 2015)[13]
    • Administrator (November 24, 2015[13] – February 2, 2016)[9]
  • Steven J. Lopes, Bishop (February 2, 2016 – present)[9]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ This entry is listed on the General Roman Calendar but with the lower rank of Feast.
  2. ^ This entry is listed on the General Roman Calendar but with the lower rank of Optional Memorial.
  3. ^ This entry is listed under a different date on the General Roman Calendar (April 23) but is transferred here in this calendar.
  4. ^ This entry is listed on the General Roman Calendar but with the lower rank of Optional Memorial.
  5. ^ This entry is listed under a different date on the General Roman Calendar (June 22) but is transferred here in this calendar.
  6. ^ This entry is listed under a different date on the General Roman Calendar (October 9) but is transferred here in this calendar.
  7. ^ This entry is listed under a different date on the General Roman Calendar (October 9) but is transferred here in this calendar.

References

  1. ^ "Parish Finder". Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
  2. ^ "Personal Ordinariate of The Chair of Saint Peter, Catholic-Hierarchy.org
  3. ^ "The Chair of Saint Peter (Personal Ordinariate) [Catholic-Hierarchy]".
  4. ^ "How To Join the Ordinariate". Archived from the original on March 11, 2015. Retrieved March 7, 2018.
  5. ^ a b "Ordinariate Questions & Answers". Archived from the original on August 30, 2015. Retrieved December 26, 2013.
  6. ^ "Mt. Calvary Catholic Church". www.mountcalvary.com. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
  7. ^ "Latest News - Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham". www.ordinariate.org.uk. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
  8. ^ "Ordinariate unveils new Mass text that draws on Cranmer". Catholic Herald. London, England, UK. October 11, 2013. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g Barned-Smith, St. John; Turner, Allan (November 24, 2015). "From Houston, new bishop will reach out across the nation". The Houston Chronicle. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
  10. ^ a b Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (January 1, 2012). "Decree of Erection of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter". Holy See. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  11. ^ a b "Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops".
  12. ^ a b c d Patel, Purva (February 12, 2012). "Cardinals install Catholic convert in rarefied post". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved February 13, 2012.
  13. ^ a b c d e SMITH, PETER JESSERER (November 25, 2015). "Historic Day for Catholics of Anglican Heritage as Pope Francis Names First Ordinariate Bishop". National Catholic Register. EWTN News, Inc. Retrieved May 27, 2016.
  14. ^ Ceremonial of Bishops, Congregation for Divine Worship, September 14, 1984, No. 1206.
  15. ^ a b c "Anglicans have U.S. home in Catholic church". USAToday. AP.
  16. ^ Canon 516, Codex juris canonici.
  17. ^ "Parish Finder". ordinariate.net. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
  18. ^ Sutton, Eugene Taylor (January 21, 2012). "One spiritual family living in two houses". Baltimore Sun. Retrieved May 27, 2016.
  19. ^ Gyapong, Deborah (April 19, 2012). "Canadian Anglican groups welcomed into Catholic Church". The Catholic Register. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
  20. ^ "Area Man Transitions from Anglican Archbishop to Catholic Priest". Leesburg Today. Archived from the original on April 11, 2013. Retrieved March 8, 2013.
  21. ^ "American Anglican bishop goes to Rome, brings cathedral congregation with him". Virtue Online. Retrieved March 8, 2013.
  22. ^ STAFF, ORDINARIATE (February 4, 2015). "New Chancery dedicated and blessed". Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter. Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
  23. ^ FABER, JENNY (March 21, 2017). "Becoming One". Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter. POCSP. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
  24. ^ "Becoming One". Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
  25. ^ "Congregation of St. Athanasius celebrates 20th year". www.thebostonpilot.com. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
  26. ^ "Ordinariate Becomes 14th U.S. 'Restored Order' Diocese". National Catholic Register. Retrieved March 22, 2020.
  27. ^ Lopes, Most Rev. Steven J. (February 14, 2020). ""Come, Holy Ghost"" (PDF). Pastoral Letter to the Clergy and Faithful of the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter.
  28. ^ "Canadian Anglican Bishops Received Into Church". ZENIT - The World Seen From Rome. Archived from the original on April 22, 2012.
  29. ^ "Former Anglican Archbishop is Happy to be a Catholic parish priest". s-National Catholic Register. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
  30. ^ Pope Bestows Papal Honor on Canadian Ordinariate Priest Archived April 16, 2013, at archive.today
  31. ^ "Former Anglican Archbishop ordained as Catholic priest". s-The B.C. Catholic Peper. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 26, 2013.
  32. ^ "Liturgical Calendar for the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter" (PDF).

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