Alan Charles Clark

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Alan Charles Clark (born August 9, 1919 in Bickley , Kent , † July 16, 2002 in Poringland near Norwich ) was a British clergyman and the first Roman Catholic bishop of East Anglia .

Life

His parents had converted to the Roman Catholic Church. He contracted polio in his childhood and was taken to Lourdes , where he received a miraculous healing. He then decided to become a priest , like his older brother. He studied at the English College in Rome and was ordained a priest for the diocese of Southwark on February 11, 1945 . Alan Charles Clark worked as a council theologian in the decisions of the Second Vatican Council and later became Vice-Rector of the English College. After his return to the Diocese of Southwark, he served as a pastor in Blackheath, Kent.

Alan Charles Clark was called on March 31, 1969 Titular Bishop of Elmham and Auxiliary Bishop in the Diocese of Northampton . The episcopal ordination donated him on May 13, 1969 Charles Alexander Grant , the Bishop of Northampton; Co- consecrators were Cyril Conrad Cowderoy , Archbishop of Southwark, and John Aloysius Murphy , Archbishop of Cardiff . On April 26, 1976 he was appointed by Pope Paul VI. called first bishop of the newly established diocese of East Anglia.

On his 75th birthday in 1994, Alan Charles Clark offered his resignation from the episcopate, which Pope John Paul II accepted on March 21, 1995, in accordance with the rules of canon law . Bishop Clark retired to the bishops' retirement home in Poringland, near Norwich, where he died at the age of 82.

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predecessor Office successor
--- Bishop of East Anglia
1976–1995 		Peter David Smith
personal data
SURNAME Clark, Alan Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British clergyman and first Roman Catholic Bishop of East Anglia
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Bickley , Kent
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 2002
Place of death Poringland near Norwich