EWTN to Broadcast Ordinariate Bishop's Keynote Address Live at National Event

The EWTN Global Catholic Network is broadcasting live the Sept. 14 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, where Bishop Steven J. Lopes of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter will give the keynote address. 

The National Catholic Prayer Breakfast main event lasts from 7 - 9 a.m. on Sept. 14, the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, at the Marriot Marquis hotel in Washington, D.C. 

EWTN's live broadcast can be accessed here.

This year's National Catholic Prayer Breakfast is an historic achievement for the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, one of three Roman Catholic diocese with Anglican traditions established by Benedict XVI’s 2009 apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus.

This is the first time an Ordinariate bishop has delivered a keynote address at the NCPB, which is attended by approximately 1,000 Catholic leaders.

In another first for the Ordinariate, Bishop Lopes is also celebrating the 5:30 p.m. Vigil Mass at the St. John Paul II National Shrine for the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, according to Divine Worship: The Missal, the Ordinariate use of Roman Rite, promulgated by Pope Francis in 2015.

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