It was announced on Friday Pope Benedict XVI has erected the third personal ordinariate
according to the norms established by the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorun coetibus.
The Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross will conform to the area of the
Australian Bishop’s Conference. The former Western Regional Bishop of the Traditional
Anglican Communion, the Reverend Harry Entwistle, was appointed the Ordinariate’s
first Ordinary.
Biography of Rev. Harry Entwistle
Reverend Harry Entwistle
was born on May 31, 1940 at Chorley, Lancashire, England and baptised an Anglican
in the Parish Church on July 7, 1940. After studies at St. Chad's Theological College
in the University of Durham, he was ordained priest on September 20, 1964 for the
Anglican Diocese of Blackburn, Lancashire. After priestly service in Fleetwood, Hardwick,
Weedon, Aston Abbotts and Cubligton, he was Chaplain in Her Majesty's Prison Service
from 1974 to 1981 and from 1981 to 1988, Senior Chaplain at HM Prison Wansworth.
He
migrated to Australia in 1988 where he was the Senior Chaplain for the Department
of Corrective Services in the Anglican Diocese of Perth, Western Australia.
From
1992 to 1999 he was Archdeacon and Parish Priest of Northam; from 1999 to 2006 Parish
Priest of Mt Lawley. In 2006 he joined the Traditional Anglican Communion and was
appointed Western Regional Bishop and Parish Priest of Maylands in Perth.
After
reception into the Church and ordination as a deacon, he was ordained to the priesthood
in St. Mary's Cathedral, Perth on June 15, 2012.