Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter

For information on personal ordinariates in general, see Personal ordinariate.
Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter
Ordinariatus Personalis
Cathedrae Sancti Petri

Coat of arms
Location
Country United States
Canada
Deaneries Deanery of St John the Baptist
Statistics
Parishes 38 (2015)[1]
Members 6,000 (2014)[2]
Information
Denomination Roman Catholic
Rite Ordinariate Use of the Roman Rite
Established January 1, 2012
Cathedral Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham, Houston
Patroness Our Lady of Walsingham
Secular priests 40 (2014)
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Ordinary Steven Joseph Lopes
Vicar General The Rev Chuck Hough, III
Website
usordinariate.org

The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter is "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".[3]

Based in Houston, Texas, where it has the principal church serving as epopymous see, the ordinariate includes throughout the United States and Canada thirty-five separate parishes (in sixteen US states and four Canadian provinces), communities and individuals. It includes two former cathedrals, the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Ottawa, Ontario and the Church of the Incarnation in Orlando, Florida.

The ordinariate was established by a decree of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith dated January 1, 2012 to include people:

This mandate was further amended in July 2013, opening membership of the ordinariate even to Catholics by baptism who have not received the sacraments of Confirmation and Eucharist and who "return to the faith and practice of the Church as a result of the evangelizing mission of the Ordinariate".[5] Membership is open to former Anglicans and former Methodists, as the latter group also stems from the Anglican patrimony.[6][7]

Originally, its territory was the same as that of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.[4] 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.[8] Accordingly, the head of the ordinariate is a full member of both episcopal conferences.[3]

Structure

The second personal ordinariate to be established after the promulgation of Anglicanorum coetibus, the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter is, according to the decree of its erection, juridically equivalent to a diocese.[4] The faithful of the ordinariate are led by an ordinary who is named directly by the pope. The ordinary may be a bishop or priest.[4]

The ordinary of a personal ordinariate is the equivalent of a diocesan bishop.[9] The ordinary is a full member by right both of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops[4][10] and of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.[3]

History

The first ordinary of the ordinariate was Monsignor Jeffrey N. Steenson, a Catholic priest who was formerly a bishop of the Episcopal Church until his reception into the Catholic Church in 2007.[11] Monsignor Steenson was installed as ordinary on February 12, 2012.[12][13][14] Because he was married, Steenson did not receive episcopal consecration, but held a position similar to that of a diocesan bishop and is a full member of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops[12] and of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.[3]

The principal church is the Church of Our Lady of Walsingham, located in Houston, Texas.[4] The ordinariate dedicated its chancery building February 1, 2015, behind and adjacent to its principal church in Houston, at which time it also celebrated the publication of the new Divine Worship missal for use in its public worship.[15][16]

The ordinariate's vicar general is Father Charles Hough III.

On January 22, 2012, Mount Calvary Church, a former Episcopalian parish in Baltimore, was received into the ordinariate.

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.[17]

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.[18]

On November 24, 2015, Pope Francis appointed Steven J. Lopes the first bishop of the personal ordinariate. It was annouced that on February 2, 2016, he would succeed Steenson. This appointment will be the first time a bishop has been named to any of the world's three Anglican Use ordinariates, which are the Chair of Saint Peter in the United States and Canada, Our Lady of Walsingham in the United Kingdom and Our Lady of the Southern Cross in Australia.[19][20][21][22][23][20][24]

Deanery of St John the Baptist

The Deanery of Saint John the Baptist is the Canadian deanery of the ordinariate, overseen by Dean Lee Kenyon under the authority of the ordinary. It was established on December 7, 2012, by a decision of the Holy See with the support of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.[8]

In the preceding April, Monsignor 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.[25]

The deanery was named after a patron saint of Canada, whose feast day was significant in the discovery of Canada by both the English and the French.

Earlier, the Anglican parish of St. John the Evangelist in Calgary joined the Catholic Church in December 2011, along with their priest, Fr. Lee Kenyon. On April 15, 2012, two Anglican Catholic Church of Canada bishops, Peter Wilkinson and Carl Reid, together with members of their congregations, were also received.

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.[26] Wilkinson was later named a Prelate of Honor by Pope Benedict XVI.[27] On January 26, 2013, Carl Reid, a former ACCC bishop, was ordained by Archbishop Terrence Prendergast at the Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica in Ottawa.[28]

More ordinations were held on December 14, 2013, in Ottawa by Archbishop Prendergast. The four priests were ordained in the presence of Mgr. Steenson for service in Toronto, Oshawa and Ottawa.

The Canadian ordinariate deanery has parishes or groups in Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, Victoria, Oshawa, Cambridge, Edmonton, and elsewhere in Canada.

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 Roman Rite liturgical calendars for the dioceses of the United States and Canada, but it has retained some elements that form part of the Anglican patrimony.[29]

In the Proper of Time:

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

Parishes

Thirty-five separate parishes in sixteen US states and four Canadian provinces fall under the jurisdiction of the ordinariate:

Canada

United States of America

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Parish Finder".
  2. ↑ Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter Statistics at Catholic Hierarchy
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Ordinariate Questions & Answers".
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 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.
  5. ↑ "Catholic News Service".
  6. ↑ "Ordinariate Membership Form" (PDF). The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter. 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2014. I am a former Anglican or Methodist and am now in full communion with the Catholic Church. I am currently an Anglican/Methodist intending to be received into the Catholic Church.
  7. ↑ "How To Join the Ordinariate". Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter. 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2014. To belong to the Personal Ordinariate, a person or family must be eligible. A person is eligible for membership if they, their spouse, or any member of their family is or ever has been Anglican, Episcopalian, Methodist, or AME. This applies even if the person or their spouse has already become a Roman Catholic. Catholics who are reconciled to the Church and those Catholics who will be completing their sacraments of initiation in an Ordinariate community are also eligible for membership.
  8. 1 2 "Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops".
  9. ↑ See also: Apostolic prefect.
  10. ↑ Hays, Charlotte (January 3, 2012). "Carrying Anglican Patrimony Into the Catholic Church: Former Episcopal bishop of southwestern diocese, a married father and grandfather, will lead Church’s personal ordinariate for Anglicans and Episcopalians who become Catholic". National Catholic Register. Retrieved 2012-01-12. Father Steenson ... will be a member of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and entitled to wear a miter, but he will not have the title of bishop, which can only be conferred on an unmarried man.
  11. ↑ "About the Ordinary". Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
  12. 1 2 Patel, Purva (12 Feb 2012). "Cardinals install Catholic convert in rarefied post". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 13 Feb 2012.
  13. ↑ Fraga, Brian (January 15, 2012). "Pope Benedict XVI creates U.S. ordinariate: Headed by a former Episcopal bishop, it will be based in Houston". Our Sunday Visitor. Retrieved 2012-01-12.
  14. ↑ Hays, Charlotte (January 3, 2012). "Carrying Anglican Patrimony Into the Catholic Church: Former Episcopal bishop of southwestern diocese, a married father and grandfather, will lead Church’s personal ordinariate for Anglicans and Episcopalians who become Catholic". National Catholic Register. Retrieved 2012-01-12. Cardinal DiNardo said that [the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston] will pay Father Steenson's salary and offer help with some of the administrative burden.
  15. ↑ "Dedication of New Chancery Building". 19 Jan 2015. Retrieved 3 Feb 2015.
  16. ↑ "Visiting the New Chancery". 4 Jul 2014. Retrieved 3 Feb 2015.
  17. ↑ "Area Man Transitions from Anglican Archbishop to Catholic Priest". Leesburg Today. Retrieved 8 March 2013.
  18. ↑ "American Anglican bishop goes to Rome, brings cathedral congregation with him". Virtue Online. Retrieved 8 March 2013.
  19. ↑ "Pope Francis Names First Bishop to Lead Catholics Nurtured in the Anglican Tradition" (Press release). Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter. November 24, 2015. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
  20. 1 2 "American Ordinariate given its first bishop". The Catholic Herald. November 24, 2015. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
  21. ↑ Harris, Elise (November 24, 2015). "Pope names first Catholic bishop to oversee Anglican ordinariate". Catholic News Agency. Retrieved November 25, 2015.
  22. ↑ 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.
  23. ↑ Allen, John L. (November 25, 2015). "Anglican appointment reveals continuity between Pope Francis and Benedict". Crux. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
  24. ↑ Wooden, Cindy (November 24, 2015). "Pope names Vatican official head of North American Anglican ordinariate". The Catholic Register. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
  25. ↑ "Canadian Anglican Bishops Received Into Church". ZENIT - The World Seen From Rome.
  26. ↑ "Former Anglican Archbishop is Happy to be a Catholic parish priest". s-National Catholic Register. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
  27. ↑ Pope Bestows Papal Honor on Canadian Ordinariate Priest
  28. ↑ "Former Anglican Archbishop ordained as Catholic priest". s-The B.C. Catholic Peper. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
  29. ↑ "Liturgical Calendar for the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter" (PDF).

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