It is organized to serve groups of Anglicans who desire full communion with the Catholic Church in Australia and Asia.

A personal ordinariate established under the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus is canonically equivalent to a diocese.

[9] In the first decade of the 21st century, a number of bishops from the Church of England and the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), a global "continuing Anglican" body, independently approached the Vatican seeking some manner of corporate reunion that would preserve their autonomy and their ecclesial structure within the Catholic Church.

Pope Benedict XVI promulgated an apostolic constitution, Anglicanorum coetibus, permitting erection of personal ordinariates equivalent to dioceses, on 4 November 2009.

Pope Benedict XVI concurrently appointed Harry Entwistle,[3] a former bishop of the ACCA who received ordination as a presbyter of the Catholic Church on the same day, as the first ordinary.

[24] A small number of interested individuals in New Zealand[1] and the Philippines[citation needed] are considering forming communities.