ordinariate
ordinariate noun: the office of a Roman Catholic ordinary, especially a bishop.
Noun
ordinariate (plural ordinariates)
Proper noun capitalized: Ordinariate
the Ordinariate
- The personal ordinariates established in 2011–12 for Anglicans entering the Catholic Church, considered as a collective.
- Indeed, only former Anglicans can offer themselves for priestly formation in the Ordinariate (art. 10 §4).2013, Gerard Mannion, “A (Strange) Sort of Homecoming?”, in Martyn Percy, Robert Boak Slocum, editors, Point of Balance: The Weight and Measure of Anglicanism, page 116
- […] the recently promulgated Missal for Ordinariate usage, under the title Divine Worship, represents a momentous development in the history of Catholic worship […]2018, Clinton Allen Brand, “Very Members Incorporate: Reflections on the Sacral Language of Divine Worship”, in Uwe Michael Lang, editor, The Fullness of Divine Worship: The Sacred Liturgy and its...
Forms of ordinariate
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Words formed from ordinariate
Questions about ordinariate
- What does ordinariate mean?
- Ordinariate means the office of a Roman Catholic ordinary, especially a bishop.
- What part of speech is ordinariate?
- Ordinariate can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of ordinariate?
- The plural of ordinariate is ordinariates.
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