Married Roman Catholic priest, Msgr. Keith Newton, will retire as head of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham (Great Britain). We respectfully ask the Church to grant Monsignor the red hat.
https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2024/04/29/240429b.html
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Right Rev. Keith
Newton
A profile of the Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of
Our Lady of Walsingham, the Right Reverend Keith Newton.
The Right Reverend
Monsignor Keith Newton P.A. was born in Liverpool, United Kingdom, in April
1952, the younger of two brothers.
He married Gill Donnison
in August 1973 and they have three children: Lucy, Tom and James. Their eldest,
Lucy, is married to Leo and they have a daughter, Katy.
He was educated at Alsop
High School, Liverpool (1963-70) and went on to read Theology at King’s
College, University of London (1970-73) where he was awarded the degree of
Bachelor of Divinity and was made an Associate of Kings College (AKC).
He gained a Post
Graduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) from Christchurch College Canterbury
in 1974 and continued formation for the Anglican priesthood at St Augustine’s
College, Canterbury. He was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in
1975 and priest a year later for the Anglican Diocese of Chelmsford where he
served his first appointment as curate at St Mary’s, Great Ilford.
In 1978 he was appointed
a Vicar in the Wimbledon Team Ministry in the Anglican Diocese of Southwark.
From 1985-91 he served in the Diocese of Southern Malawi in the Anglican
Province of Central Africa. From 1986-91 he was the Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral,
Blantyre, Malawi.
In 1991 he returned to
the United Kingdom and ministered in the Anglican Diocese of Bristol as Priest
in Charge of Holy Nativity, Knowle (1991-92). He served as Vicar of Holy
Nativity, Knowle, from 1992-2002, and Priest in Charge of All Hallows’, Easton from
1997-2002. He was appointed Rural Dean of Brislington (1995-99), Area Dean of
Bristol South (1999-2002) and an Honorary Canon of Bristol Cathedral in 2000.
He was ordained as an
Anglican bishop on 7 March 2002 by the then Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most
Reverend George Carey, to serve as Suffragan Bishop of Richborough and
Provincial Episcopal Visitor in the Province of Canterbury.
He and his wife were
received into the full Communion of the Catholic Church at Westminster
Cathedral by Bishop Alan Hopes on 1 January 2011.
He was ordained to the
sacred priesthood at Westminster Cathedral on 15 January 2011 by Archbishop
Vincent Nichols. On the same day he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI as the
first Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. On 17 March
2011 he was honoured by His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, being elevated to the
rank of Protonotary Apostolic.
Link
For more, please visit
the Ordinariate’s website.
