Peter Forster, who retired from his post as the Anglican bishop of Chester in 2019, has been received into the Roman Catholic Church. Although the news has only just broken, it happened discreetly last year. I was told privately at the time by a mutual friend, who said that Peter didn’t want any publicity. He had retired to Scotland and quietly sought reconciliation.
With Fr Michael Nazir-Ali, Jonathan Goodall and John Goddard, that makes four Church of England bishops who in the last year have abandoned Anglicanism and asked to be reconciled to the mother church.
