NEW BISHOP OF LANCASTER

The Very Rev. Thomas Edward Flynn, V.F., Ph.D., M.A., parish priest of St. Mary's, Chorley, and editor of the Clergy Review, has been appointed Bishop of Lancaster in succession to Mgr. Thomas Pearson, O.S.B., first Bishop of Lancaster.
Immediately on receipt of the news of his appointment to the See of Lancaster, a CATHOLIC HERALD reporter went to congratulate Dr. Flynn, who is at present parish priest of Chorley, Lancs.
" My pleasure was unbounded," he said, " when Dr. Flynn replied: ' Of course, I am also a press-man.' " Dr. Flynn had a special message for the CATHOLIC HERALD. He gave a. ready blessing for the work of the paper.
"I think," he said, " there are great potentialities in the Catholic Press generally, and in the CATHOLIC HERALD in particular."
He added, " I am most eager that my people should read the Catholic Press in order to learn the Catholic point of view on matters of the day."
The Bishop-designate was born in 1880 and is the son of Mr Thomas Flynn, of Liverpool. He was educated at St. Edward's College, Liverpool, St. Joseph's College, Upholland, and at Cambridge University, where he obtained the Natural Science Tripos.
From Cambridge he went to the University of Fribourg where he took his doctorate in philosophy.
Ordained priest in 1908, Fr. Flynn was appointed Professor of Mathematics at St. Edward's College, Liverpool, in 1912, from where he went to take up mission work in Waterloo, Liverpool, in 1916. In 1917 he began his work for the higher education of the clergy. In that year he was appointed Professor at St. Edmund's Old Hall, from where he went to Upholland as Professor of Philosophy in 1924. He was vice-president of the college from 1928 to 1932. Since 1932 he has been parish priest at Chorley. Canon Flynn was external Examiner in Philosophy for the National University of Ireland from 1931-1933.
Last year he was appointed a Canon of the Liverpool Cathedral Chapter.
The Bishop-designate is the author of The Supernatural Virtues, and has written a great number of pamphlets and articles besides successfully editing the Clergy Review.