ordinariate
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In the organisation of the Catholic Church and of the Anglican Communion an ordinariate is a pre- or pseudo-diocesan ecclesiastical structure, of geographical or personal nature, headed by an ordinary who is not necessarily a bishop.
An ordinariate can be: an ordinariate for the faithful of Eastern rites in one or more countries (for Catholics of Armenian or Byzantine rite, usually) a military ordinariate, for the troops of a nation a personal ordinariate, also known as an Anglican ordinariate (a Catholic jurisdiction for those of the Anglican patrimony) a missionary jurisdiction, the Eastern Catholic equivalent of an apostolic prefecture, e.g. the former Ordinariate of Asmara the diocesan curia (in German use [Ordinariat], cf. English chancery) an ordinariate for an academic community, notably the former Ordinariate for foreign students in Belgium
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