In the organisation of the Catholic Church and of the Anglican Communion an ordinariate is an ecclesiastical structure, of both geographical and personal nature, headed by an ordinary who is not necessarily a bishop. An ordinariate can be: == See also == ...
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(formerly) a province in which the faithful of an Eastern rite were under the rule of a prelate of their rite who had no territorial jurisdiction.
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