It’s never too late: 78-year-old Cambridge professor and renowned Cromwellian scholar ordained a priest

A world-renowned academic and Cambridge professor was ordained to the Catholic priesthood at St John’s Cathedral in Norwich on 21 September – and despite being older than the usual mandatory retirement age for a parish priest.

Seventy-eight-year-old John Morrill, also formerly a deacon for 28 years, was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Peter Collins, watched by a 250-strong congregation of clergy, family, friends, former students and university colleagues, notes the website of the Diocese of East Anglia.