Report by Duncan Williams for Pulman's Weekly News
The Diocese of Plymouth has welcomed its new bishop after the installation of the Right Reverend Nicholas Hudson at a ceremony attended by clergy and parishioners from across Devon, Cornwall and Dorset.
The Installation Mass took place at the Cathedral Church of St Mary and St Boniface on the patronal feast day of St Cuthbert Mayne, marking the formal beginning of Bishop Hudson’s leadership of a diocese serving around 11,293 Catholics across 57 parishes and 37 schools.
Senior Catholic leaders were present, including Archbishop Miguel Maury Buendía, Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, and the Most Reverend John Wilson, Metropolitan Archbishop of Southwark, alongside bishops from England and Wales.
Bishop Hudson, who was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Southwark in 1986, has served as an Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster and Titular Bishop of St Germans in Cornwall since 2014. His appointment ends a lengthy …
