English Explanatory Dictionary

ordinariate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The office of a Roman Catholic ordinary, especially a bishop.
name
  1. The personal ordinariates established in 2011–12 for Anglicans entering the Catholic Church, considered as a collective.

Word forms

ordinariate ordinariates the Ordinariate

Derived words

Ordinariate personal ordinariate
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