Keith Newton (prelate)

Keith Newton ( born April 10, 1952 in Liverpool, United Kingdom) is a former Bishop of Richborough the Church of England and since 2011 a Roman Catholic priest and professor of staff Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

Life

Keith Newton studied at King's College London and at Canterbury Christ Church University and finished at St Augustine 's College, Canterbury his theological studies. From 1975 to 1978 he worked for the municipality of Great Ilford St. Mary in Chelmsford and 1978-1985 Vicar of St. Matthew's Wimbledon in the Wimbledon Team Ministry in Southwark. In 1985 he became rector of Blantyre in Malawi and later Dean of the Cathedral Blantyre. After a position as Resident Minister and Vicar of Holy Nativity Knowle in Bristol from 1991 to 2001 In 1997 he was Resident clergyman in All Hallows, Easton. From 1995 to 1998, Keith Newton Rural Dean of Brislington and 1998-2001 Area Dean of the New South Deanery of Bristol.

Keith Newton was appointed Bishop of Richborough 2002. This office was created in 1995 in order to exercise episcopal functions in those communes of the province of Canterbury Anglican Church, who do not recognize the ordination of women.

Since 2008 he has been in contact with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. On 8 November 2010, he announced his withdrawal from the Church of England and the entry into the Catholic Church.

Keith Newton is married to Gill Donnison and has three children.

Conversion to the Catholic Church

Keith Newton converted on 1 January 2011, together with John Broadhurst and Andrew Burnham and their wives, of the Church of England to the Roman Catholic Church. On 13 January 2011, he received the diaconate by Alan Stephen Hopes, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster. On January 15, 2011, he was ordained at Westminster Cathedral by the Primate of England and Wales and Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols to Gerard Catholic priest and at the same time full professor of Pope Benedict XVI. established staff Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham ordered. He will hold this office without episcopal ordination, as a Zölibatsdispens for bishops is not possible. He has received permission to wear in worship miter, pectoral cross and ring and a crosier in the same way as some abbots. On 17 March 2011 he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI. appointed Apostolic prothonotary ( honorary ) with the right to wear clothes outside prelate of worship.