Monday, January 3, 2011

Former Anglican bishops to be ordained priests two weeks after becoming Roman Catholics


From The Telegraph-

So it turns out that John Broadhurst, Andrew Burnham and Keith Newton will spend less than two weeks as laymen. According to the Friends of the Ordinariate website, the former bishops of Fulham, Ebbsfleet and Richborough will be ordained Roman Catholic priests in Westminster Cathedral at 10.30am on Saturday, 15 January, a fortnight after they were received into the Church. Everyone is welcome to attend. By that stage they will already be Catholic clergy, having been ordained deacons on Thursday 13 January.

I’d be interested to know whether this sets some sort of record. The late Mgr Graham Leonard, former Bishop of London, was, I believe, ordained priest without a separate diaconal ordination, though I could be wrong about that. Does anyone remember when he was received? One difference is that Mgr Leonard was ordained conditionally, on 23 April 1994. To quote his Daily Telegraph obituary from last January:

He told his former colleagues on the episcopal bench of the House of Lords of his decision to join the Roman Church, and sent papers to the Vatican outlining his claim to be a legitimately ordained bishop. This was because he had received apostolic orders from a bishop of the Old Catholic Church, which were considered legitimate even though it had broken with Rome at the first Vatican Council during the mid-19th century.

More here-

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100070307/former-anglican-bishops-to-be-ordained-priests-two-weeks-after-becoming-roman-catholics/

and here-

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2011/01/03/ex-anglican-bishops-to-be-ordained-to-priesthood-on-january-15/

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