The Augustinian Friars in Britain

Our Hearts are Restless until they Rest in You, Lord

BISHOP MICHAEL CAMPBELL OSA's ORDINATION

Michael Campbell OSA was ordained bishop at St Peter’s Cathedral, Lancaster on 31 March.

Present were the Cardinals Murphy O’Connor and Keith O’Brien, 32 bishops, the Prior General, our Provincial, 200 priests and 400 lay-people, as many as could fit into the Cathedral. Every available friar of the Province was there and many from the Irish Province.

Archbishop Patrick Kelly of Liverpool was the ordaining bishop and Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor preached the homily.

On his ordination memorial card, Michael chose an image of St Augustine taken from the ‘Te Deum’ window in Lancaster Cathedral, and a quote from 2 Cor.:

‘We carry this treasure in earthenware jars, to show that its surpassing power comes from God and not from ourselves.’

Bishop Patrick O'Donoghue, the current Bishop of Lancaster, said that "It was both a privilege and an honour to ordain Bishop Campbell, who will succeed me as Bishop of Lancaster on my retirement next summer. It has been a great day both for the Diocese and for the Augustinian order who today saw their brother priest ordained Bishop; the first Augustinian bishop in England since the reformation."