Ambrose Griffiths

Ambrose Griffiths OSB ( born December 4, 1928 in Twickenham, † June 14, 2011 in Liverpool, civil Michael Griffiths ) was an English clergyman and Roman Catholic Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle.

Life

Michael Griffiths attended a Preparatory school in Brighton and later the Ampleforth Preparatory School in Gilling Castle in North Yorkshire. He attended Ampleforth College and studied the natural sciences from 1946, with an emphasis on chemistry, at Balliol College, University of Oxford. Here he received a First Class Bachelor of Science Honours degree, and later a Master of Arts.

After graduating, Griffiths joined the Congregation of Benedictines at, put on 25 September 1951 in the Abbey Ampleforth the profession and took the religious name Ambrose, based on Ambrose of Milan, at. Griffiths now visited the Pontifical Athenaeum of Saint Anselm in Rome to study theology and prepare for the priesthood. Selbige he received on 21 July 1957.

He taught the next years at Ampleforth College. He was procurator of Ampleforth Abbey in 1972 and was thus responsible for managing their assets. Four years later, on April 7, 1976, Griffiths was elected as the successor of Basil Hume Abbot of Ampleforth. After the eight -year tenure as abbot he was pastor of St. Mary in Leyland for another eight years. With the departure from office of the Abbot of Ampleforth him the title of Abbot of Westminster was awarded.

Pope John Paul II appointed him on 11 January 1992 Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle. The Archbishop of Liverpool, Derek Worlock, John, ordained him on 20 March of the same year the bishop; Co-consecrators were Hugh Lindsay, Bishop Emeritus of Hexham and Newcastle, and Owen Francis Swindlehurst, Auxiliary Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle.

On 26 March 2004, Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation due to age. Griffiths now settled in the Parish of St. Mary 's, Leyland, Lancashire, which he had formerly looked after as pastor. On 14 June 2011 he died as a result of leukemia.