Mgr Philip Whitmore has been appointed as the new Rector of the Venerable English College, in succession to Mgr Nicholas Hudson. The handover will take place in mid-August. The Venerable English College is the Bishops' seminary in Rome training priests for ministry in the dioceses of England and Wales.
Mgr Whitmore, Archdiocese of Westminster, currently works at the Secretariat of State for the Holy See in Rome. Mgr Hudson, Archdiocese of Southwark, who has been Rector of the VEC since 2004, has been appointed parish priest of Sacred Heart in Wimbledon by Archbishop Peter Smith.
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Mgr Whitmore was the translator of Pope Benedict's Jeasus of Nazareth trilogy.
He'll be a good thing for the VEC.
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Father, I thought Sacred Heart, Wimbledon was a Jesuit parish?
PS - this announcement is most welcome. Mgr Whitmore visits our Parish occasionally and Celebrates Sunday Mass when he has leave from Rome and from what I have seen will be a very good rector.
Gung...
The Js are giving it up in the summer.
Excellent news. And maybe after a little while he'll be able to come hone at last ...
Archdiocese of Southwark, who has been bingo online Rector of the VEC since 2004, has been appointed parish priest of Sacred Heart in Wimbledon by Archbishop Peter Smith.
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