![]() The church moved several times during the following years until 1992 where it relocated to a small newly constructed church at the current location. On April 7, 1984, Moore and Ramsey were ordained as priests in the Roman Catholic Church and were appointed as co-pastors of Our Lady of Walsingham Catholic Church. Bishop John Louis Morkovsky allowed the community, although not yet formally part of the Catholic Church, to worship at a local church where they met weekly for worship. In 1982, James Moore and James Ramsey resigned their positions within the Episcopal Diocese of Texas to pursue a path into the Catholic Church.ĭuring this period, Moore and Ramsey held small weekly community meetings under the title of Our Lady of Walsingham. In 1980 Pope John Paul II established the Pastoral Provision that allowed Anglicans to enter into communion with the Catholic Church while retaining elements of their Anglican heritage. The Order of Mass is celebrated according to Divine Worship: The Missal.Ĭhancery (left) and shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham The church features a distinctive architecture style reminiscent of Neo-Gothic style churches of an Anglican heritage and is the first parish in the United States dedicated to Our Lady of Walsingham. ![]() Upon the establishment of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter the church was transferred from the diocese to – and became the principal parish of – the ordinariate it now serves as the ordinariate's cathedral. ![]() The parish operated in various locations before moving in 1992 to its current site, where the present church was completed in 2003. ![]() ![]() The parish was originally founded in 1984, by clergy who had previously ministered in the Episcopal Church, as a parish under the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston–Houston. The Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham in Houston, Texas, is a Catholic church that serves as the cathedral of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter. Church in Texas, United States Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham ![]()
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