In the organisation of the

Catholic Church The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...

and of the

Anglican Communion The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Founded in 1867 in London, the communion has more than 85 million members within the Church of England and other ...

See, for example, th
Anglican Military Ordinariate in Canada
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 A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...

. An ordinariate can be: * an

ordinariate for the faithful of eastern rite An ordinariate for the faithful of Eastern rite is a geographical ecclesiastical structure for Eastern Catholic communities in areas where no eparchy of their own particular Church has been established. This structure was introduced by the apostol ...

s in one or more countries * a

military ordinariate A military ordinariate is an ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Catholic Church, of the Latin or an Eastern church, responsible for the pastoral care of Catholics serving in the armed forces of a nation. Until 1986, they were called "military v ...

, for the troops of a nation * a

personal ordinariate A personal ordinariate for former Anglicans, shortened as personal ordinariate or Anglican ordinariate,"...the liturgies approved for the Anglican ordinariates..." "Bishop Stephen Lopes of the Anglican Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter..." ...

, also known as the Catholic Ordinariate of the Anglican Patrimony * a missionary jurisdiction, the

Eastern Catholic The Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also called the Eastern-Rite Catholic Churches, Eastern Rite Catholicism, or simply the Eastern Churches, are 23 Eastern Christian autonomous ('' sui iuris'') particular churches of t ...

equivalent of an apostolic prefecture, e.g. the former

Ordinariate of Asmara The Eritrean Catholic Archeparchy of Asmara, officially the Archeparchy of Asmara ( la, Archieparchia Asmarensis or la, Metropolitana Ecclesia Asmarensis), more informally Asmara of the Eritreans, is the metropolitan see of the Metropolitan Erit ...

* the diocesan curia (in German use 'Ordinariat'' cf. English chancery) * an ordinariate for an academic community, notably the former (unique?)

Ordinariate for foreign students in Belgium The Ordinariate for foreign students in Belgium (or Ordinariaat voor buitenlandse studenten in België in Dutch or Ordinariat aux Etudiants étrangers en Belgique in French) was a Roman Catholic ordinariate (pseudo-diocesan jurisdiction) for the aca ...

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