Three ex-Anglican bishops are received into full communion

Ceremony at Westminster Cathedral paves way for ordinariate

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Three former Anglican bishops were received into full communion with the Catholic Church during a Mass at Westminster Cathedral today.

John Broadhurst, Andrew Burnham and Keith Newton - the former bishops of Fulham, Ebbsfleet and Richborough respectively - will take prominent roles in the Personal Ordinariate for England and Wales which will be established in early 2011.

The wives of two of the ex-Church of England bishops and three nuns from Walsingham were also received.

Westminster auxiliary Bishop Alan Hopes, himself a former Anglican, was chief celebrant at the Mass.

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