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Jvette:

Yes, the Anglican Clergy that come into the Catholic Church will be ordained as the Catholic Church sees the need to be sure that the sacraments that these Men will celebrate are valid and thus are proper means of Grace for all those who participate in them and receive them. The 3 recent Anglican Bishops were ordained with no conditions, i.e. Fr. Newton, Fr. Broadhust, and Fr. Burnham.

Another Anglican Bishop, Bishop Barnes is to be ordained as a Catholic priest as well and recently the Dean of the Episcopal Cathedral for Episcopal Diocese of North Dakota [what I guess is like an auxillary Bishop in the Catholic CHurch] resigned his post and will seek ordination as a Catholic Priest as well. His name is Rev. Sellers.

However, there is at least 1 case where a former Anglican Bishop was ordained sub conditione. Graham Leonard was conditionally ordained as a Catholic priests by orders of Pope John Paul II because when he was ordained as an Anglican clergyman in 1964, there was at least 1 Bishop from the Dutch Old Catholic Church that rejected Vatican I. At that time, it was unclear as to whether the ole Catholics still retained proper Ordination Rites but also they may have had proper ordination Rites, so he was conditionally ordained as a Catholic Priest.

He was given the title of Monsignor by the Pope and was given the honor of being a Papal chaplain which means he probably got the honor to preach at a Mass with Pope John Paul the II in the audience.

The Dean of an Anglican/Episcopal Cathedral is the rector of the cathedral parish. He's not really an auxiliary or suffragan bishop. The closest analogue in the Catholic Church might be a provost or Cathedral Rector.

In Anthony Trollope's novels he made plain how hard a Dean can make life for a Bishop if they are at loggerheads (but it's clear that everybody is supposed to be cheering against Bishop Proudie and especially his abominable wife).