Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter

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For information on personal ordinariates in general, see Personal ordinariate.
Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter

Ordinariatus Personalis
Cathedrae Sancti Petri
File:Personal Ordinariate of the Seat of Saint Peter.svg
Coat of arms
Location
Country United States
Canada
Deaneries Deanery of St John the Baptist
Statistics
Parishes 42[1]
Information
Denomination Roman Catholic
Rite Anglician Use[1] (Roman Rite)
Established January 1, 2012
Cathedral Our Lady of Walsingham
Patroness Our Lady of Walsingham
Secular priests 40 (2014)
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Steven Joseph Lopes
Vicar General Timothy Perkins
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".[2]

Based in Houston, Texas, where it has the cathedral serving as epopymous see, the ordinariate includes throughout the United States and Canada, 42 parishes, in sixteen US states and five 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.

Originally, its territory was the same as that of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.[3] 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.[4] Accordingly, the head of the ordinariate is a full member of both episcopal conferences.[2]

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.[5] 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.[3]

The ordinary of a personal ordinariate is the equivalent of a diocesan bishop whether he is a bishop or not. The ordinary is a full member of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.[5]

History

The issuance of Anglicanorum Coetibus in 2009 made it possible for personal ordinariate to be created for those Anglicans who wish to reunited with the Catholic Church while retaining Anglican features their worship.[6] The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter and the position heading it, the ordinary, was the first ordinariate created for the United States. Since its creation, over 100 Anglican clergy have applied to be Catholic priests in the ordinariate, while around 1,400 lay people have since joined.[6] The first ordinary was the Reverend Jeffrey N. Steenson. Monsignor Steenson was installed as ordinary on February 12, 2012. The installation Mass was at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston led by cardinals Daniel DiNardo and Donald Wuerl. Our Lady of Walsingham Church in Houston was designed as the ordinariate's principal church.[5]

Mount Calvary Church in Baltimore voted to join the ordinariate in 2010. In December 2011, the parish had settled with the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland over the church and associated building. Thus on January 21, 2012, Mount Calvary parish was receive together as the first ordinariate parish.[7]

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.[8] 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.[9] The ordinariate formed a deanery for Canada, the Deanery of Saint John the Baptist, on December 7, 2012.

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.[1] This appointment was the first time a bishop has been named to any of the world's three Anglican Use ordinariates.[10] With the appointment of a bishop to head the ordinariate, the principal church was elevated to a cathedral, the third in Houston.[1]

On November 27, 2016, the First Sunday of Advent, the ordinariate's parishes changed their liturgies to the newly finalized ones which Lopes helped develop, with Lopes celebrating Mass at the cathedral using the new missal.[1][10]

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.[4]

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.[11]

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.[12] Wilkinson was later named a Prelate of Honor by Pope Benedict XVI.[13] On January 26, 2013, Carl Reid, a former ACCC bishop, was ordained by Archbishop Terrence Prendergast at the Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica in Ottawa.[14]

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.[15]

In the Proper of Time:

  • In place of "Sundays in Ordinary Time", it uses the expressions "Sundays after Epiphany", "Sundays before Lent" (with the names "Septuagesima", "Sexagesima" and "Quinquagesima" in parentheses), and "Sundays after Trinity". However, the readings at Mass are identical with those in the Roman Rite Lectionary.
  • Ember Days are observed on the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday after the First Sunday of Lent, Pentecost, Holy Cross Day and Saint Lucy's Day.
  • Rogation Days are observed on the three days following the Sixth Sunday of Easter.
  • In the week between Pentecost and Trinity Sunday, elements of the former octave are fostered: while the readings of the Ordinary Time weekday are retained, the Mass propers and use of red as the liturgical color "may sustain the themes of Pentecost".

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:

Ordinaries

  • Jeffrey Steenson - is married and was a former Episcopal bishop who joined the Catholic Church in 2007, becoming a becoming a Catholic priest in 2009. He developed the education and training program for Anglican priests that wish to join the Catholic Church.[6]
    • Ordinary (February 12, 2012 -[5] November 24, 2015)[10]
    • Administrator (November 24, 2015 -[10] February 2, 2016)[1]
  • Steven Joseph Lopes, Bishop (February 2, 2016 - present)[1]

See also

References

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Further reading

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External links

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