The Pope has honoured three former Anglican bishops, the first members of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, with the title of monsignor.
Fr Keith Newton, the leader of the Ordinariate who has most of the functions of a bishop, and Fr John Broadhurst, the former Bishop of Fulham, have been granted the papal award of Apostolic Pronotary, the highest ecclesial title for non-bishops. Fr Andrew Burnham, the former Bishop of Ebbsfleet, has been granted the papal award of Prelate of Honour, and is therefore also a monsignor.
The three men became the first clergy of the world’s first personal ordinariate set up for groups of former Anglicans as a result of the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus in January.
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This provokes the question of the Anglo-Catholics who are married clergy in the Anglican Church that if they want to become Roman Catholics then are those who are of the Bishop rank but married then logically they were retroactivelly not true Bishops at all even when they were of the Anglican persuasion.Ahem towards those former Anglican Bishops who are now Roman Catholics.If you get my drift.
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