A doughty episcopal reformer.
Born in Essex on May 27, 1937, Hugh Christopher Budd was educated by the Salesians at Chertsey before entering the junior seminary at Cotton College. From there he progressed to St Thomas’s Seminary, Grove Park, before completing his studies at the Venerable English College in Rome. He was ordained in July 1962, on the eve of the Second Vatican Council.
Remaining in Rome to pursue doctoral studies, Budd served as tutor in Theology at the Venerabile while the implications of Vatican II began to filter down through the Church. He returned to England to teach Theology at Newman College before moving to the Catholic Marriage Advisory Council. From there he was sent to St John’s Seminary, Wonersh, in 1979, as its Rector.
