Northampton Bishop Consecrated

With impressive ceremony Mgr. T. L. Parker, the seventh Bishop of Northampton, was consecrated at the hands of Mgr. Godfrey, the Apostolic Delegate, at Northampton Cathedral on Tuesday.
The co-consecrators were Mgr. Amigo, Archbishop-Bishop of Southwark, and Mgr. McNulty, Bishop of Nottingham. Mgr. Williams, Archbishop of Birmingham, Mgr. Marshall, Bishop of Salford, Bishop Mathew, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster, together with several Abbots and the Rectors of Ushaw and Oscott, and some 120 priests were present.
Among prominent people in the Cathedral was the Mayor of Northampton, and at the luncheon which followed the Apostolic Delegate referred in his speech, after he had proposed the toasts of the King and of the new Bishop, to the need of co-operation between Catholics and their fellow-citizens in the fight against the common enemy of Christianity, which is anti-Christ and irreligion.