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personal ordinariate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.37 in modern English

Syllables
per-son-al or-di-nar-i-ate
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
7
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Inflected Forms

personal ordinariates (plural)

Questions

What does personal ordinariate mean?
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.
Where does personal ordinariate come from?
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.

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