From Canada-When Peter Wilkinson returned to his home town of Victoria, British Columbia, 42 years ago, with five years of service in the Anglican Church in England under his belt, he was deemed too “Catholic” by the local bishop and never got an Anglican parish of his own.
But as an Anglican-Catholic member of a world-wide communion of dissenters from liberal trends in Anglicanism, he rose swiftly to bishop and then to Metropolitan for Canada — before giving that all up earlier this year to be received as a simple layman into the Catholic Church.
On Dec. 8, at the ripe age of 72, he was ordained a Catholic priest and immediately assumed his duties as priest and pastor of St. Columba of Iona Church. Father Wilkinson’s flock comprises 22 former Anglican Catholics who with him were received into the Catholic Church early this year, and at the same time into the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter.
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