2014-04-14 12:01:50

New bishop appointed to Brentwood, UK


(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has appointed Father Alan Williams, S.M. as the new Bishop of Brentwood, in the United Kingdom. The Bishop-elect has been serving at the Director of the National Sanctuary of Our Lady of Walsingham.

Father Alan Williams was born in Blackburn on March 15, 1951. He studied at the University of Durham and London University while earning his doctorate in Psychology. He studied theology at Allen Hall in Westminster, and received his License in Theology at Cambridge University and a Masters in Religious Education at Hull Unversity.

He became a member of the Society of Mary in in 1976, and was ordained on April 30, 1983. He served as Regional Superior of the Marist Fathers from 2000-2008, when he became Director of the National Sanctuary of Our Lady of Walsingham, a position he previously held from 1992-2000.








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