Source: http://www.ordinariate.org.au/anglicanorum-coetibus/
Timestamp: 2020-08-08 08:43:41
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 1', '§ 2', '§ 3', '§ 4', '§ 5', '§ 2', '§1']

The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern CrossAnglicanorum Coetibus - The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross
What is the Personal Ordinariate?
I. § 1. Personal Ordinariates for Anglicans entering into full communion with the Catholic Church are erected by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith within the confines of the territorial boundaries of a particular Conference of Bishops in consultation with that same Conference.
§ 2. Within the territory of a particular Conference of Bishops, one or more Ordinariates may be erected as needed.
§ 3. Each Ordinariate possesses public juridic personality by the law itself (ipso iure); it is juridically comparable to a diocese.[12]
§ 4. The Ordinariate is composed of lay faithful, clerics and members of Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, originally belonging to the Anglican Communion and now in full communion with the Catholic Church, or those who receive the Sacraments of Initiation within the jurisdiction of the Ordinariate.
§ 5. The Catechism of the Catholic Church is the authoritative expression of the Catholic faith professed by members of the Ordinariate.
§ 2.The Ordinary, in full observance of the discipline of celibate clergy in the Latin Church, as a rule (pro regula) will admit only celibate men to the order of presbyter. He may also petition the Roman Pontiff, as a derogation from can. 277, §1, for the admission of married men to the order of presbyter on a case by case basis, according to objective criteria approved by the Holy See.