About The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross:
The Ordinariat of Our Lady of the Southern Cross is a personal ordinariate of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church primarily within the territory of the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference. It is organized to serve groups of Anglicans who desire full communion with the Catholic Church in Australia and Asia. This was the third Personal Ordinariate to be erected for former Anglicans (after the United Kingdom and the U.S.A./ Canada).
A personal ordinariate established under the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus is canonically equivalent to a diocese. The faithful of the ordinariate are led by an ordinary. The ordinary may be either a bishop, if celibate, or priest, if married.
The ordinary of a personal ordinariate is the equivalent to a diocesan bishop, and thus wears the same ecclesiastical attire and uses the same pontifical insignia (mitre, crosier, pectoral cross, and episcopal ring) as a diocesan bishop, even if not a bishop
Personal ordinariates are immediately subject to the Holy See in Rome.
The motto of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross is Mea Gloria Fides (My Faith is my Glory).
Australia
Since its inception, the ordinariate has grown to include 14 Australian congregations in the 5 mainland states: New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia.
Guam
One ordinariate parish presently exists in Guam
Japan
The ordinariate has also begun to form in Japan, where it has presently two congregations. In February 2015, a congregation of the Traditional Anglican Church of Japan was received as the Ordinariate Community of St Augustine of Canterbury in Tokyo, the first ordinariate community in Asia. In June 2016, another priest was ordained for the Ordinariate Community of St Laurence of Canterbury in Hiroshima.
Tasmania
One Brother in Tasmania is also a member
Click here for the official website of The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross