The Apostolate of Blessed John Henry Newman established March 17th, 2012 © 2012
Last updated May 16th, 2012
A Lay Apostolate
working in support of
the Personal Ordinariate of
the Chair of St.
Peter
and the future
Deanery of
St. John the Baptist.
Sydney Newman Apostolate
Our History and Mission
Web site Redesigned by: Mr. Andrew Warner
August 11th, 2005
December 30th, 2006
January 27th, 2008
December 29th, 2011
Site History
The Apostolate of Blessed John Henry Newman is incorporated under the Societies Act of the Province of Nova Scotia and is registered as a Charitable organization with Canada Revenue Agency.
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A Place For Anglicans in the Catholic Church
On November 25th, 2003,
Dr. Charles Warner, then an Anglican Lay Reader, purposed
the establishment of an Anglo-Catholic presence on Cape Breton Island...
Joining the Pilgrimage
The establishment “Personal Ordinariates” for those of the Anglican heritage entering full communion with the Catholic Church while maintaining distinctive elements of their theological, spiritual, and liturgical patrimony.
Anglicanorun coetibus
Document declaring the establishment of Anglican Ordinariates in the Catholic Church.
Twelve Communities
now in
the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter
The following twelve communities have now completed their journey and are part of the Personal Ordinariate:
Our Lady of Walsingham Church,
The Principal Church of the Ordinariate, Houston,
Texas
Mount Calvary Church,
Baltimore, Maryland
Saint Luke's Church,
Bladensburg, Maryland
Saint Timothy’s Church,
Fort Worth, Texas
Saint Peter the Rock Ordinariate Catholic Community,
Arlington, Texas
The Church of Saint Michael
the Archangel,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Calgary, Alberta
Sodality of the Annunciation
of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
Ottawa, Ontario
St. Thomas More Catholic Parish, Scranton, Pennsylvania
Anglican Use Society,
Indianapolis, Indiana
St. John Vianney Fellowship, Cleburne/Granbury, Texas
St. Anselm’s Community,
Greenville, South Carolina
Australian Catholic Bishops Conference
Media Release - 11 May, 2012
Personal Ordinariate
to be established in Australia
on
15 June
The President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, Archbishop Denis Hart, announced today that Pope Benedict XVI intends to announce the establishment in Australia of a Personal Ordinariate for Former Anglicans to commence on 15th June 2012.
A Personal Ordinariate is a church structure for particular groups of people who wish to enter into communion with the Catholic Church.
In 2009 Pope Benedict announced special arrangements to cater for groups of Anglicans who wished to join the Catholic Church. This provision allows them to maintain some of the traditions of prayer and worship of Anglicanism.
Personal Ordinariates have already been established in the United Kingdom (2011) and the United States of America (2012).
The Australian Bishops have already put in place procedures to enable clergy and lay church members to join the Catholic Church through the Ordinariate.
Archbishop Hart hopes that there will be a warm welcome to those wishing to enter the Catholic Church through the Ordinariate.
“I am confident that those former Anglicans who have made a journey in faith that has led them to the Catholic Church will find a ready welcome”, he said.
This new community will have the status of a diocese and will be known as the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross under the patronage of St Augustine of Canterbury.
For media enquiries, please contact Fr Brian Lucas on 0419 243 959 or Beth Doherty on 0407 081 256
