The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in England and Wales is a personal ordinariate in the Latin Church of the Catholic Church immediately exempt, being directly subject to the Holy See. It is within the territory of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, of which its ordinary is a member, and also encompasses Scotland. It was established on 15 January 2011 for groups of former Anglicans in England and Wales in accordance with Anglicanorum coetibus, an apostolic constitution written by Pope Benedict XVI, which was supplemented with the Complementary Norms of Pope Francis in 2013.
The personal ordinariate is set up in such a way that "corporate reunion" of former Anglicans with the Catholic Church is possible while also preserving elements of a "distinctive Anglican patrimony". The liturgy used is the Divine Worship: The Missal (2015, 2020), an adaption of the Roman Rite with Anglican elements. Each ordinariate has its own liturgical calendar. The ordinariate was placed under the title of Our Lady of Walsingham and under the patronage of Saint John Henry Newman, a former Anglican himself.
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