Patronage

Patron Saint of The Ordinariate

The Catholic Church venerates St. John Henry Newman as the patron saint of the Ordinariate. Patron saints are heavenly intercessors — believers entrust a place, profession, or struggle to a saint whose own life touched it, and ask for their prayers before God.

St. John Henry Newman

Feast: October 9

An Anglican theologian and cardinal whose conversion to Catholicism shook Victorian England and whose writings profoundly influenced the Second Vatican Council.

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