Acta Apostolicae Sedis - Commentarium Officiale130

1. The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham ipso iure

possesses juridic personality and is juridically equivalent to a diocese.3 It

includes those faithful, of every category and state of life, who, originally

having belonged to the Anglican Communion, are now in full communion

with the Catholic Church, or who have received the sacraments of initiation

within the jurisdiction of the Ordinariate itself,4 or who are received into it

because they are part of a family belonging to the Ordinariate.5

2. The faithful of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham

are entrusted to the pastoral care of the Personal Ordinary who, once named

by the Roman Pontiff,6 possesses all the faculties, and is held to all the

obligations, specified in the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus

and the Complementary Norms 7 as well as in those matters determined

subsequently by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, on request

both of the Ordinary, having heard the Governing Council of the Ordinariate,

and of the Episcopal Conference of England and Wales.

3. The Anglican faithful who wish to be received into full communion

with the Catholic Church through the Ordinariate must manifest this desire

in writing.8 There is to be a programme of catechetical formation for these

faithful, lasting for a congruent time, and with content established by the

Ordinary in agreement with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith so

that the faithful are able to adhere fully to the doctrinal content of the

Catechism of the Catholic Church,9 and therefore, make the profession of faith.

4. For candidates for ordination, who previously were ministers in the

Anglican Communion, there is to be a specific programme of theological

formation, as well as spiritual and pastoral preparation, prior to ordination

in the Catholic Church, according to what will be established by the Ordinary

in agreement with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and in

consultation with the Episcopal Conference of England and Wales.

3 Cfr. can. 372 § 2 C/C; Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, Art. 1 § 3. 4 Cfr. Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, Art. I § 4. 5 Cfr. Complementary Norms, Art. 5 § 1. 6 Cfr. Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, Art. IV, Complementary Norms,

Art. 4 § 1. 7 Cfr. Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, Art. VI § 4; Complementary Norms,

Art. 5 § 2; Art. 9. 8 Cfr. Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, Art. IX. 9 Cfr. Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, Art. I § 5.