Three Episcopal ministers were ordained priests for the ordinariate for former Anglicans in North America.Frs Jason Catania, John Anthony Vidal and David Reamsnyder were ordained at Baltimore's Cathedral of Mary Our Queen on Saturday.
Several dozen of Fr Catania's parishioners at Mt Calvary Church in Baltimore became the first American Anglicans to join the ordinariate after it was launched on 1 January.
Fr Catania told the Baltimore Sun: "Even when I was ordained in the Episcopal Church, I knew someday that I would end up Catholic one way or another. It just took me 12 years to get here."
Two men have already been ordained to the US ordinariate and 14 more are due to be ordained in the coming weeks.