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Decree of Erection of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham | Prelaturas, Ordinariatos y otras circunscripciones personales
With the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, promulgated on 4 November 2009, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, provided for the establishment of Personal Ordinariates through which Anglican faithful may enter, even in a corporate manner, into full communion with the Catholic Church[1]. On that same date, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith published Complementary Norms relating to such Ordinariates[2].
In conformity with what is established in Art. I § 1 and § 2 of the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, having received requests from a considerable number of Anglican faithful, and having consulted with the Episcopal Conference of England and Wales, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
1. The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham ipso iure possesses juridic personality and is juridically equivalent to a diocese[3]. It includes those faithful, of every category and state of life, who, originally having belonged to the Anglican Communion, are now in full communion with the Catholic Church, or who have received the sacraments of initiation within the jurisdiction of the Ordinariate itself[4], or who are received into it because they are part of a family belonging to the Ordinariate[5].
2. The faithful of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham are entrusted to the pastoral care of the Personal Ordinary who, once named by the Roman Pontiff[6], possesses all the faculties, and is held to all the obligations, specified in the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus and the Complementary Norms[7] as well as in those matters determined subsequently by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, on request both of the Ordinary, having heard the Governing Council of the Ordinariate, and of the Episcopal Conference of England and Wales.
3. The Anglican faithful who wish to be received into full communion with the Catholic Church through the Ordinariate must manifest this desire in writing[8]. There is to be a programme of catechetical formation for these faithful, lasting for a congruent time, and with content established by the Ordinary in agreement with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith so that the faithful are able to adhere fully to the doctrinal content of the Catechism of the Catholic Church[9], and therefore, make the profession of faith.
5. For a cleric not incardinated in the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham to assist at a marriage of the faithful belonging to the Ordinariate, he must receive the faculty from the Ordinary or the pastor of the personal parish to which the faithful belong[10].
6. The Ordinary is a member by right of the Episcopal Conference of England and Wales, with deliberative vote in those cases in which this is required in law[11].
8. Until the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham may have established its own Tribunal, the judicial cases of its faithful are referred to the Tribunal of the Diocese in which one of the parties has a domicile, while taking into account, however, the different titles of competence established in cann. 1408-1414 and 1673 CIC[12].
9. The faithful of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham who are, temporarily or permanently, outside the territory of the Episcopal Conference of England and Wales, while remaining members of the Ordinariate, are bound by universal law and those particular laws of the territory where they find themselves[13].
11. The Ordinary, keeping in mind the Ratio fundamentalis institutionis sacerdotalis and the Programme of Priestly Formation of the Episcopal Conference of England and Wales, is to prepare a Programme of Priestly Formation for the seminarians of the Ordinariate which must be approved by the Apostolic See[14].
12. The Ordinary will ensure that the Statutes of the Governing Council and the Pastoral Council, which are subject to his approval, are drawn up[15].
[1] Cf. AAS 101 (2009), 985-990.
[2] Cf. L’Osservatore Romano (9-10 November 2009), p. 7; Weekly Edition in English (11 November 2009), p. 4.
[3] Cf. can. 372 § 2 CIC; Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, Art. I § 3.
[4] Cf. Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, Art. I § 4.
[5] Cf. Complementary Norms, Art. 5 § 1.
[6] Cf. Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, Art. IV, Complementary Norms, Art. 4 § 1.
[7] Cf. Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, Art. VI § 4; Complementary Norms, Art. 5 § 2; Art. 9.
[8] Cf. Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, Art. IX.
[9] Cf. Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, Art. I § 5.
[10] Cf. cann. 1110-1111 CIC.
[11] Cf. Complementary Norms, Art. 2 § 2.
[12] Cf. Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, Art. XII.
[13] Cf. can. 13 § 3 CIC.
[14] Cf. Complementary Norms, Art. 10 § 3; see also Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, Art. VI § 2.
[15] Cf. Complementary Norms, Art. 12 § 1; Art. 13 § 2.