The ordination of Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, the former Anglican Bishop of Rochester, as a priest of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham took place on Saturday 30th October at the Church of the Assumption, Warwick Street. He had been ordained a Catholic deacon two days before at the Chapel of Oscott, where St John Henry Newman had given his famous “Second Spring” homily in 1852,
His Eminence Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, performed the ordination and celebrated the subsequent Mass, with the Ordinary, Monsignor Keith Newton and Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham also present in the sanctuary. The church, originally the chapel of the Portugese Embassy in London, is main church of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
