Robert Mercer (Bishop)

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Robert William Stanley Mercer CR (born January 10, 1935 in Zimbabwe ) is the former fourth Anglican Bishop of Matabeleland of the Church of the Province of Central Africa from 1977 to 1987 and a priest of the Roman Catholic Church since 2012.

Life

Mercer studied at the Gray School in Port Elizabeth and at St Paul's Theological College in Grahamstown . After his ordination as a deacon in 1959 and a year later he accepted a position as a pastor in Hillside , Bulawayo . He was a member of the Community of the Resurrection (CR). After an interlude in St Teilo’s in Carmarthen , he went back to his home country, but was deported there in 1970. He was then chaplain at St Augustine's School in Penhalonga and then principal of Borrowdale, Harare . In 1977 he was appointed bishop. After converting to the church, he was bishop and metropolitan of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada , part of the Traditional Anglican Communion, between 1988 and 2005 . Although he returned to England, he remained a member of the House of Bishops of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada. After his retirement in 2005, he was Episcopal Visitator of the Traditional Anglican Communion in Great Britain until 2012.

Robert Mercer converted from the Anglican Church to the Roman Catholic Church on January 7, 2012 . He was ordained deacon on March 21, 2011 at Allen Hall Seminary in London by Alan Stephen Hopes, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster. He was ordained a Catholic priest on March 26, 2012 in Portsmouth Cathedral by Bishop Alan Stephen Hopes for the purpose of Pope Benedict XVI. Established Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham . On June 21, 2012 he was by Benedict XVI. Appointed Chaplain of Honor to His Holiness .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.theanglocatholic.com/2012/01/another-anglican-bishop-answers-pope-benedicts-call-to-unity/
  2. ↑ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ukordinariate/sets/72157629674846359/

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SURNAME Mercer, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mercer, Robert William Stanley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Anglican bishop
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Zimbabwe