The organizer of the Moscow Ordinariate group was an Anglican for 10 years and is an OLW

Ordinariate member, with many others in the group being attracted to the Anglican Patrimony, having

over the years traveled to the UK and joining Ordinariate communities for worship.

The Divine Worship Mass was celebrated by Fr John Boyle in the Crypt Chapel of the Immaculate

Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Cathedral in Moscow, using the Divine Worship Missal gifted

to them by the OLW's Friends of the Ordinariate association. Fr Mark Elliott-Smith and David Northey

of Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory also donated Altar Cards for the Mass. The Ordinariate

Support Group in Moscow works with Una Voce Russia, whose mission is the "Preservation of the

doctrinal, historical and cultural identity of the Catholic Church in Russia.".

There is another such Ordinariate group called the Anglican Use in the Philippines which regularly

gathers for Evensong in Manila, and is also working towards holding it's own Divine Worship Mass,

towards possibly joining the Australian Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, of

which some are already members. Many of this group have a Methodist background.

Recently the Vatican release revised norms with increased allowance for non-Ordinariate Catholic

Clergy to celebrate the liturgy of Divine Worship, if it is at least for one Ordinariate member. With

applications of those wanting to form Ordinariate communities having had been made from South

America, South Africa, New Zealand etc in future we may see future Ordinariate groups pop up outside

the three established Ordinariates.

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