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The AGM will be held in the Harrogate International Conference Centre, commencing 9.30am. The keynote speaker is Bishop Arthur Roche, the Coadjutor Bishop of Leeds. There are no motions for discussion this year.
There will be a refreshment break at c10.30 am. This will served on level 5. After the AGM there will be opportunities for ordering wine for the Banquet and the Carnival.
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A PROFILE OF BISHOP ARTHUR
ROCHE, |
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Bishop David Konstant with Bishop Arthur
Roche |
| ORDAINED: | July 19, 1975 | At St Joseph's Batley Carr by Bishop Gordon Wheeler |
Appointed as curate to the Holy
Rood, Barnsley from August 1975 until January 1978. In that January, he
became secretary to Bishop Gordon Wheeler and Chaplain to St. John Bosco
School in Leeds. He was appointed Vice - Chancellor of the Diocese in June
1979, and Diocesan Coordinator of the National Pastoral Congress in 1980.
In February 1982, he was appointed as the Co-ordinator of the Papal Visit,
then in July of that year after the Papal visit he returned to Bishop’s
House. From September 1982 to January 1986 he was appointed as an
assistant priest at the Cathedral in Leeds, becoming the Financial
Secretary in August 1986, in fact he was the last Priest Financial
Secretary for the Diocese the job is now done by a lay person. In January
1989 he became Parish Priest of St Wilfrid’s in Leeds and remained there
until July 1991. In September 1991, he went to Rome for further studies at
the Pontifical Gregorian University, where he gained a Licence in Sacred
Theology (STL). In September 1992, he became Spiritual Director of The
Venerable English College in Rome. In August 1996, he was appointed
Prelate of Honour on his appointment as General Secretary to The Bishops’
Conference of England and Wales during which time he served three
Presidents of the Conference, Cardinal Basil Hume, Archbishop Michael
Bowen and Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor. He was ordained Bishop by Cardinal
Cormac Murphy-O’Connor on 10th May 2001 at Westminster Cathedral. Since
then, he has been an auxiliary Bishop in the Diocese of Westminster having
been appointed chairman of the Pastoral Affairs Department of the diocese,
of the Finance Committee and of the Catholic Children’s’ Society
(Westminster). He presented his Apostolic mandate to the Bishop and
Consultors of the Diocese of Leeds at a special Mass in the Cathedral
Church of St Anne’s, Leeds on Monday September 16th 2002. |