Promotion for Bishop of Plymouth as Pope appoints him to two Welsh dioceses

The Pope has appointed Bishop Mark O’Toole as Archbishop-elect of Cardiff and Bishop-elect of Menevia.

A Londoner, Bishop O’Toole has been Bishop of Plymouth since his appointment in 2013.

He was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Westminster in 1990 and served as private secretary to Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor between 2002 and 2008. He was appointed as the rector of Allen Hall seminary in Chelsea, London, in 2008.

Archbishop-elect O’Toole will become the eighth archbishop of Cardiff in succession to Archbishop George Stack, who has been Archbishop of Cardiff since 2011.