An Anglican parish in Kent has announced its intention of taking up the Ordinariate.
The churchwardens of St Peter’s Folkestone, which is in the Archbishop of Canterbury’s diocese, will approach their archbishop in the first step towards joining an ordinariate.
St Peter's Folkestone falls under the pastoral care of the Rt Rev Bishop Keith Newton of Richborough, one of two "flying bishops" who are likely to be at the vanguard of an Ordinariate.
While many believe the move towards an Ordinariate is predominantly clergy-driven, the decision to take up the offer made to Anglo-Catholics by Pope Benedict in the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus at St Peter’s Folkestone came from a lay initiative.
