In the organisation of the
Catholic Church and of the
Anglican Communion[1] 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.
^... we are learning to call them the 'Anglican ordinariates'" - Aidan Nichols in Andrew Burnham, Heaven and Earth in Little Space (Canterbury Press Norwich 2010
ISBN978-1-84825-005-5), p. xv
^"Bishop Stephen Lopes of the Anglican Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter..."
"Pillar Horse Race". www.pillarcatholic.com. 11 November 2021. Retrieved 12 November 2021.