The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross was erected by Pope Benedict with the the Decree of Erection, signed by William Cardinal Levada, Prefect of the Congregation For the Doctrine of the Faith was signed on 15 June 2012. This was the third Personal Ordinariate to be erected for former Anglicans (after the United Kingdom and the United States of America / Canada).

The Ordinary is The Right Reverend Harry Entwistle, Protonotary Apostolic with the Principal Church of Saint Ninian and Saint Chad located in Perth, Western Australia. As an Ordinary, Monsignor Harry is a member of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference.

The Personal Ordinariate currently includes eleven worship communities across Australia. Eleven parishes constitute the Ordinariate and are located in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.

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  • The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross was erected by Pope Benedict with the the Decree of Erection, signed by William Cardinal Levada, Prefect of the Congregation For the Doctrine of the Faith was signed on 15 June 2012. This was the third Personal Ordinariate to be erected for former Anglicans (after the United Kingdom and the United States of America / Canada).
  • The Personal Ordinariates were established to provide a vehicle by which those of Anglican heritage could be received into full communion with the Catholic Church, as catholics, whilst maintaining certain disctinctive elements of their theological, spiritual and liturgical patrimony. The key to understanding the essential purpose of the Ordinariate is to be found in the preface to Anglicanorum coetibus. In those opening paragraphs, there are no fewer than nine references to the Vatican II document Lumen Gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church.
  • In the Southern heavens is found a constellation called Crux. Every Australian who has gazed upon the night sky has seen the Southern Cross and knows it well. Pope John Paul II, in address to the Aboriginal people of Australia in 1986, said... "It is a great joy for me to be here today in Alice Springs and to meet so many of you, the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders of Australia. I want to tell you right away how much the Church esteems and loves you, and how much she wishes to assist you in your spiritual and material needs.
  • Personal Ordinariates for former Anglicans

    On 4 November, 2009 the apostolic consitutuion Anglicanorum Coetibus was decreed by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. The such personal ordinariates currently have been erected:

    • Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham (United Kingdom, est. 2011)
    • Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter (United States of America, est. 2012)
    • Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross (Australia, est. 2012)