Bernard Longley

Bernard Longley ( born April 5, 1955 in Manchester, England) is Archbishop of Birmingham.

Life

Longley studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and New College, Oxford. He received on 12 December 1981, the sacrament of Holy Orders, and then worked as a pastor in Epsom and in psychiatric care facilities. From 1991, he took on the diocesan level, since 1996, also at the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the UK various tasks in the area of ecumenism true. He was appointed moderator of the Coordination Committee of the Churches of Great Britain and Ireland and the Secretary General of the English Bishops' Conference with responsibility for questions of ecumenism and interreligious dialogue in 1999.

John Paul II appointed him on 4 January 2003 as Titular Bishop of Zarna and Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster. The bishop ordained Longley along with Alan Stephen Hopes on 24 January 2003 by the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy - O'Connor.

On 1 October 2009 he was named Pope Benedict XVI. Archbishop of Birmingham. The inauguration took place on 8 December of the same year.

Memberships

Bernard Longley is a member of the following institutions of the Roman Curia:

• Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization ( since 2011 )