Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of the Right Revd Mgr Keith Newton from his pastoral responsibility for the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.
As of 11 a.m. on 29 April, in addition to Mgr Keith Newton stepping down as the Ordinary of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsinghan, the Pope appointed Father David Waller – until now the Vicar General of the Ordinariate – to be the second Ordinary of the Ordinariate here in Great Britain.
As Fr Waller is a celibate, he will be ordained to the episcopate in due course and so will be the first Bishop Ordinary for the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.
