Pope Leo XIV accepts the resignation of Cardinal Vincent Nichols and appoints Richard Moth as the new Archbishop of Westminster, in Great Britain.<\/p>\n
Vatican News<\/b><\/p>\n
On Friday, Pope Leo XIV accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Westminster, England, presented by Cardinal Vincent Gerard Nichols.<\/p>\n
The Pope also appointed Archbishop Richard Moth to shepherd the Archdiocese of Westminster, according to the Holy See Press Office.<\/p>\n
Archbishop Moth has previously served as Bishop of Arundel and Brighton since March 2015.<\/p>\n
Brief biography<\/b> <\/p>\n
Charles Phillip Richard Moth was born on 8 July 1958 in Chingola, Zambia. He completed his primary and secondary studies in Catholic schools in Kent.<\/p>\n
He received priestly formation at St John\u2019s Seminary in Wonersh, Surrey and, at the Universit\u00e9 Saint-Paul of Ottawa, where he obtained a Licentiate in Canon Law.<\/p>\n
He was ordained a priest on July 3, 1982 for the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Southwark.<\/p>\n
Archbishop Moth held several offices as a priest, including Parochial Vicar; Judge of the Metropolitan Tribunal of First Instance of Southwark; Chaplain of the Army Medical Corps in Kennington; Private Secretary to the Archbishop; Master of Liturgical Celebrations; Director of the Vocations Office and Vice-Chancellor; President of the Metropolitan Tribunal of Second Instance of Southwark.<\/p>\n
In 2001, he was appointed Vicar General of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Southwark and Prelate of Honour, and he served as Parish Administrator of Holy Cross, Plumsteas.<\/p>\n
In 2006, he became the Parish Administrator of St Joseph\u2019s, St Mary\u2019s, Cray.<\/p>\n
On July 25, 2009, Archbishop Moth was elected Military Ordinary for Great Britain, receiving episcopal consecration on September 29.<\/p>\n
On March 21, 2015, Pope Francis transferred him to the See of Arundel and Brighton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV accepts the resignation of Cardinal Vincent Nichols and appoints Richard Moth as the new Archbishop…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":461719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[57585,209718,51,50,3417,52,376],"class_list":{"0":"post-461718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-appointments","9":"tag-bishops","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pope-leo-xiv","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115756310575181604","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}