Bishops' diaries

AS the academic year gets under way, the return of students to campus strikes a reponse in the bishops' diaries for the coming week. On Sunday, Bishop Mervyn Alexander of Clifton celebrates mass at Clifton Cathedral for students of Bristol University and Polytechnic. On Friday, Bishop John Jukes, auxilary in Southwark, attends a meeting of the University of Kent Chaplaincy Support Group.
The needs of religious, as well as those of diocesan clergy, are also a prominent theme. On Thursday, Bishop Joseph Gray of Shrewsbury celebrates mass with the Union of Monastic Superiors at Hawkestone while Bishop Cormac Murphy O'Connor of Arundel and Brighton attends a diocesan day of prayer for religious on the following day.
On Tuesday, Bishop Leo McCartie of Northampton is present at the Clergy Fund AGM in Cambridge; on the same day, Bishop Augustine Harris of Middlebrough journeys to Scarborough for a two-day clergy residential course which will also be visited by Bishop Patrick Kelly of Salford. On Wednesday, Bishop Crispian Hollis of Portsmouth attends a meeting of his diocesan council of priests at Bishop's House.
Archbishop Derek Worlock of Liverpool travels to St Teresa's, Southport, on Monday to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the ordination of Canon John Gaite. The following day, Archbishop Michael Bowen of Southwark and Bishop Howard Tripp, an auxilary in the diocese, attends reception at Westminster to mark the 13th anniversary of Pope John Paul II. On Wednesday, Bishop Alan Clark of East Anglia chairs the meeting of the shrine council at Walsingham. Bishop John Brewer of Lancaster is present at St Benet's Hall, Oxford, for a theology committee meeting.
On Monday, Bishop Daniel Mullins of Menevia journeys to Freiberg, Switzerland, for a symposium on Catholic education in Great Britain and Germany. Bishop David Konstant of Leeds is absent all week in Rome at a meeting of the catechism commission.
Coming Events
ARCHBISHOP Derek Worlock of Liverpool will present the first of a series of lectures at City College, Norwich, on Tuesday October 22. Entitled "Rights, Values, and the Quality of Life," it will be held in the college's lecture theatre at 8.00 in the evening. Admission is free, but due to limited numbers, tickets will be issued on the door from 6.30 on. For further information, please contact Jackie Donkin on 0603 660011 ext 392.
"CHRISTIAN witness at work," the annual lecture of the London Industrial Chaplaincy, will be delivered at McCormick Hall, St Martin's-in-the-Fields, London, by Fr Jack Mahoney Si, professor of moral and social theology at King's College, London, on Monday October 28 at 7.00. For more details, please write to the Secretary, CIC, 30 Causton Street, London SW IP 4AU.
VISCOUNT Tonypandy, the former Speaker of the House of Commons, will present the second Hugh Kay Memorial Lecture on "Prisons and Penal Reform" at the Church of St James Garlickhythe, Upper Thames Street, London EC4 on Tuesday October 22. The event is organised by the Christian Association of Business Executives, and will take place at 7.00 in the evening. For further information, please contact 071 931 0495.
THE Stapleford Addiction Centre is holding an educational seminar and workshop for clergy and 'carers on Saturday November 2 between 11.00 and 5.00 at 25a Ecccleston Street, Belgravia, London. Topics include an overview of addictions; medical aspects and treatment; and making the link between medical and spiritual responses. For more details, please contact the centre on 071 823 6840.
Obituary
PROFESSOR Patrick.
McGrath, a leading authority on the history of Bristol, has died at the age of 77.
Invariably known as "Paddy," he was born in 1914 and educated at Cardinal Vaughan School in Holland Park and Queen Mary College, London, where he gained first class honours.
In 1937, he became senior history master at Mount St Mary's College, Chesterfield. During the war, he served with the King's African Rifles, returning in 1946 as Captain McGrath to take up an appointment at Bristol University. In 1957, he he became a senior lecturer, in 1963 a reader, and in 1975 professor.
A committed Catholic, hiS first book Papists and Puritans under Elizabeth I dealt with religious beliefs outside the established church. The Merchant Venturers of Bristol explored the collegiate ethos of Bristol traders throughout the centuries. He possessed a wide knowledge of Bristol records. He held office in the Bristol Records Society, the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society and the Historical Association.
Professor McGrath married Sheila Yeats in 1950; they had seven children.