Links

We hope you will find these links useful and comprehensive. If you feel there is a website that is lacking from these links, please do contact us.

Founding Documents

The Apostolic ConstitutionAnglicanorum Coetibus, creating the framework of Personal Ordinariates serving groups of Anglicans.  This was published in November 2009.

The Complementary Norms for Anglicanorum Coetibus provide additional information about the establishment of Personal Ordinariates serving those of the Anglican tradition in communion with the Roman Catholic Church.

The Decree from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith establishing the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

The Ordinariate websites

The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham (UK)
The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter (USA)
The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross (Australia)

UK Ordinariate Groups

Details of all the UK Ordinariate Groups may be found on the Ordinariate Website.

Other Resources
The Holy See is the Vatican website and includes a wealth of information, including key Church documents and statements from the Holy Father.

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales gives information about the work of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference.

The Catholic Herald: reporting on all aspects of Catholic life in the UK.

The Oxford Newman Society:  St John Henry Newman is Patron of both the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham and the Newman Society.

The Guild of Our Lady of Ransom is a Catholic confraternity which prays for Christian Unity.

The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham: England’s Nazareth and the spiritual home of the Ordinariate in the UK

The St Barnabas Society www.stbarnabassociety.org.uk

The Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral www.rcdow.org.uk/ukrainian church

The Sodality of the Blessed Sacrament www.corpuschristimaidenlane.org.uk

The Archdiocese of Westminster www.rcdow.org.uk

The Bishops’ Conference www.cbcew.org.uk

The Shrine at Walsingham www.walsingham.org.uk

Ordinariate Blogs

Several priests of the Ordinariate maintain blogs which are often interesting & entertaining:

Fr Hunwicke

Fr Tomlinson

Fr Anderson

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

The Portal Magazine

Ordinariate Overseas

The following websites are useful for seeing the work of Ordinariates in other parts of the world:

The Anglicanorum Coetibus Society (USA)

Our Lady of the Atonement (USA)

Calgary Ordinariate Group (Canada)

The Congregation of St. Athanasius (USA)

The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross (AUS)

The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter (USA)

Ordinariate Liturgy

A large part of the Anglican Patrimony is liturgical, and, under the norms of Anglicanorum Coetibus, the Ordinariate has its own liturgical use found in several books:

Divine Worship: The Missal: Containing the Order of Mass and propers

Divine Worship: Occasional Services: Containing the order for baptisms, weddings, & funerals

The Customary of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham: the daily Office book for the English Ordinariate, based on the offices of the Book of Common Prayer. An online preview may be found here.