We in the Ordinariate have been celebrating. Fifteen years ago, on January 15, 2011, the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham was erected. The announcement was made at the end of the Mass in which, in a packed Westminster Cathedral, Keith Newton, Andrew Burnham and John Broadhurst were ordained to the sacred priesthood. All three had been serving bishops in the Church of England: two as Provincial Episcopal Visitors serving Richborough and Ebbsfleet respectively, and Broadhurst as Bishop of Fulham in the Diocese of London. Now they were the first priests of the Ordinariate, and Fr (later Mgr) Keith Newton had been named as the first Ordinary.
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The Ordinariate at fifteen: rumours and reality
As the Ordinariate marks its anniversary, celebration gives way to clarification of its liturgical identity following unfounded rumours
Fr Mark Elliott Smith
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