Requiem for Msgr. Graham Leonard at the Oxford Oratory

According to its newsletter, the Requiem Mass for Msgr. Graham Leonard will be sung at the Oxford Oratory on Thursday, 21 January at 11:30 AM.

Here is the Bishop's obituary from The Times.

Meanwhile, the liberalisation of the Church of England showed every sign of going farther. Once off the battlefield, he could view the situation more dispassionately. He had been reading revisionist historians of the Reformation and, though convinced of the validity of his own ordinations, he began to reassess the fundamental theory of Anglo-Catholicism. He concluded that Anglicanism was not an ecclesial organism, and could never be other than a Tudor political device. In 1993 he became the first diocesan bishop of the Church of England to “cross the Tiber”.

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