Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham

The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in England and Wales Ordinariatus Personalis Dominae Nostrae Valsinghamensis in Anglia et Cambria
Coat of arms
Location
Country	United Kingdom
Territory	Great Britain
Statistics
Parishes	36 [1]
Congregations	57[1]
Members	1950 (2021)[1]
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Anglican Use of the Roman Rite
Established	15 January 2011
Patron	Saint John Henry Newman
Secular priests	97[1]
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Ordinary-elect	David Waller
Episcopal Vicars	Christopher Lindlar Michael Halsall
Bishops emeritus	Keith Newton
Website
ordinariate.org.uk

The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in England and Wales is a personal ordinariate in the Latin Church of the Catholic Church immediately exempt, being directly subject to the Holy See. It is within the territory of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, of which its ordinary is a member, and also encompasses Scotland.^[2] It was established on 15 January 2011 for groups of former Anglicans in England and Wales in accordance with the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus of Pope Benedict XVI,^[3] which was supplemented with the Complementary Norms of Pope Francis in 2013.^[4]

The personal ordinariate is set up in such a way that "corporate reunion" of former Anglicans with the Catholic Church is possible while also preserving elements of a "distinctive Anglican patrimony".^[5] The Liturgy used is the Divine Worship: The Missal (2015, 2020), the Mass being a use of the Roman Rite with Anglican elements, and it has its own Liturgical Calendar. The ordinariate was placed under the title of Our Lady of Walsingham and under the patronage of Saint John Henry Newman, a former Anglican himself.