“It now has the full support and blessing of Pope Francis,” says the website of the ordinariate.
The Ordinariate has a structure similar to that of a diocese, but can be led by a bishop or a priest; and is part of the Episcopal Conference of England and Wales.
The Anglican communion suffered a major internal rift after some of its communities approved the ordination of gay bishops and female “bishops.”
The apostolic constitution English groups It then established the way in which Anglicans who wish to do so can enter the full communion of the Catholic Church, this in response to the request of many Anglicans to embrace Catholicism.