Vatican City, 2014 (VIS) – The Holy
Father has appointed Msgr. Marcus Stock as bishop of Leeds (area
5,033, population 2,068,000, Catholics 157,766, priests 182,
permanent deacons 24, religious 149), England. The bishop-elect was
born in London, England in 1961 and was ordained a priest in 1988. He
studied theology at Oxford University and dogmatic theology at the
Pontifical Gregorian University. He has served in a number of
pastoral roles, including parish priest of “St. Birinus” in
Dorchester-on-Thames, “St. Peter's” in Bloxwich, and Coleshill,
and director of Catholic schools for the archdiocese of Birmingham.
He is currently secretary general of the Episcopal Conference of
England and Wales and advisor to the Heythrop College Faculty of
Theology, London. In 2011 he was nominated Prelate of Honour of His
Holiness.
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