Southwark: eight former Anglican priests ordained deacons

Bishop Hine with the new Deacons

At the request of Monsignor Keith Newton, the Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, and in his presence, Bishop John Hine, Auxillary Bishop of Southwark, ordained eight former Anglican priests to the diaconate on Saturday 7 May 2011. The ordinations took place during a Mass in the Relic Chapel at The Friars, Aylesford.

The new deacons ordained for the Ordinariate are: Reverends Ivan Aquilina, Stephen Bould, Simon Heans, Nicholas Leviseur, Christopher Lindlar, Christopher Pearson and Edward Tomlinson who hope to be ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Peter Smith in Southwark Cathedral on Saturday, 4 June 2011, and James Bradley, who will minister as a deacon for a year.

Source: Southwark Diocese