Pope Francis did say the Ordinariate for ex-Anglicans was unnecessary - but that does not mean it will be Papal policy, an Anglican bishop has said.
Bishop Gregory Venables told the BBC the published account of Cardinal Bergoglio's remarks to him was correct.
A spokesman for the UK Ordinariate commented that it was set up with the highest Catholic legal authority.
A Vatican spokesman said last month the Ordinariates were "a permanent feature" of the Catholic Church.
The Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham was set up in the UK in 2011 in a move strongly supported by the last Pope, Benedict XVI, to allow discontented former Anglicans a place within the Catholic Church where they could preserve elements of their "Anglican patrimony".
It was followed by two other Ordinariates, covering North America and Australasia.
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