Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross Ordinariatus Personalis Dominae Nostrae Crucis Australis | |
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| Statistics | |
| Parishes | 17 |
| Members | 1,200 (2021)[2] |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Anglican Use (Divine Worship) of theRoman Rite |
| Established | 15 June 2012 |
| Cathedral | Ordinariate Parish of St Bede the Venerable, Sydney |
| Patron saint | Augustine of Canterbury[3][4] |
| Secular priests | 19[3] |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Leo XIV |
| Apostolic Administrator | Anthony Randazzo |
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ThePersonal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross is apersonal ordinariate of theLatin Church of theCatholic Church primarily within the territory of theAustralian Catholic Bishops' Conference. It is organised to serve groups of Anglicans who desirefull communion with the Catholic Church in Australia and Asia.[5] Personal ordinariates, likemilitary ordinariates anddioceses, are immediately subject to theHoly See in Rome.[3] The motto of the ordinariate isMea Gloria Fides (My Faith is my Glory).[6][7] The currentapostolic administrator isAnthony Randazzo, who succeeded the second ordinary,Carl Reid, in 2023.
A personal ordinariate established under the apostolic constitutionAnglicanorum coetibus is canonically equivalent to adiocese. The faithful of the ordinariate are led by an ordinary. The ordinary may be either a bishop, if celibate, or priest, if married.[8]
The ordinary of a personal ordinariate is theequivalent to a diocesan bishop, and thus wears the same ecclesiastical attire and uses the same pontifical insignia (mitre,crosier,pectoral cross, andepiscopal ring) as a diocesan bishop, even if not a bishop.[9]
In the first decade of the 21st century, a number of bishops from theChurch of England and 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. PopeBenedict XVI promulgated an apostolic constitution,Anglicanorum coetibus, permitting erection ofpersonal ordinariates equivalent to dioceses, on 4 November 2009.[10] The Vatican subsequently erected three ordinariates: thePersonal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in the territory of the episcopal conference of England and Wales on 15 January 2011,[11][12] thePersonal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter in the territory of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on 1 January 2012[citation needed] and the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross in the territory of Australian Conference of Catholic Bishops on 15 June 2012.[13]
The decree erecting the Personal Ordinariate of the Southern Cross designated the Church of Saints Ninian and Chad in Perth as the principal church of the ordinariate, which fulfills the same role as the cathedral church of a diocese. This church building previously housed a congregation of theAnglican Catholic Church in Australia (ACCA), the Australian province of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC). Pope Benedict XVI concurrently appointedHarry Entwistle,[3] a former bishop of the ACCA who received ordination as a presbyter of the Catholic Church on the same day, as the first ordinary. As of July 2019[update], the ordinariate had 18 congregations throughout Australia and Japan.[14]
The ordinariate announced that theChurch of Torres Strait, previously a separateecclesiastical province of the TAC, was coming into the ordinariate substantially intact and was going to form a territorialdeanery in that region.[15] However, the Church of Torres Strait later decided not to join the ordinariate. In spite of this, a parish onDauan Island in theTorres Strait chose to enter the ordinariate anyway and a former priest of the Church of Torres Strait was ordained as a transitional deacon in June 2018 byBishop James Foley of Cairns.[16]
On 26 March 2019, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of the first ordinary, Harry Entwistle, after he reached retirement, and appointed as ordinary Carl Reid, until then the dean of the Deanery of St John the Baptist (Canada) of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter.[17][18] Reid was installed on 27 August 2019.[19]
On 21 April 2023, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of the second ordinary, Carl Reid, and appointedAnthony Randazzo, Bishop ofBroken Bay, as apostolic administrator of the ordinariate, effective 1 July 2023.[20][21]
Since its inception, the ordinariate has grown to include 14 Australian congregations in the5 mainland states.[22]
OneBrother in Tasmania is also a member.[1]
One ordinariate parish currently exists inGuam.[1]
The ordinariate has also begun to form in Japan, where it currently has two congregations. In February 2015, a congregation of the Traditional Anglican Church of Japan was received as the Ordinariate Community ofSt Augustine of Canterbury in Tokyo, the first ordinariate community in Asia.[23] In June 2016, another priest was ordained for the Ordinariate Community of St Laurence of Canterbury in Hiroshima.[24]
A small number of interested individuals inNew Zealand[1] and thePhilippines{{see the group'sFacebook page}} are considering forming communities.
The ordinariate has 17 congregations across Australia, Japan and Oceania.[1]
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The following individuals have served as head of the personal ordinariate:[21]
| No. | Picture | Name | Position | Date installed | Term ended | Term of office | Reason for term end | Coat-of-arms |
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| 1 | MonsignorHarry Entwistle | Ordinary | 15 June 2012 | 27 August 2019 | 7 years, 73 days | Retired |  | |
| 2 | MonsignorCarl Reid | Ordinary | 27 August 2019 | 1 July 2023 | 3 years, 308 days | Resigned due to impendingvisa expiry |  | |
| 3 | BishopAnthony Randazzo | Apostolic Administrator | 1 July 2023 | present | 2 years, 113 days | (incumbent) |  |
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