The former Anglican Bishop of Chester has become a Catholic during a private ceremony in Scotland.
Dr Peter Forster, 71, who retired in 2019, is the fourth Anglican bishop to be received into the Catholic faith in a year, and the fifth in the last two years.
He also the second bishop from the Evangelical wing of the Church of England to cross the Tiber after Dr Michal Nazir-Ali, the former of Bishop of Rochester, joined the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in September.
Until now, most Anglicans who become Catholics have usually come from the Anglo-Catholic wing of the Anglican Communion.
