# personal ordinariate

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A canonical structure equivalent to a diocese, administered by an ordinary and providing for the pastoral needs of former Anglicans who have joined the Catholic Church.

## Etymology
From ordinariate, the office or jurisdiction of a church ordinary; personal by analogy with personal prelature, implying that members are part of the ordinariate as individual persons, rather than because they live in a particular diocesan territory.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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