The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham has established its first formal parish, based in the town of Torbay in Devon.
Mgr Keith Newton, the Ordinary, signed a decree on Sunday 28 May establishing the parish at a former Methodist chapel that was purchased by the Ordinariate in 2015. Fr David Lashbrook is the first parish priest.
The parish comprises members of the Ordinariate who were formerly associated with the Torbay Ordinariate Mission which has met in Chelston for the last six years.
