25 YEARS AGO

September 27, 1957
New Bishop for Leeds
WITH THE PAPAL and National Flags flying over head and to Vittoria's Ear Sacerdos Magnus two Archbishops, eight Bishops, Bishops-elect and 350 priests filed in procession into St Anne's Cathedral, Leeds, on Tuesday last, Feast of Our Lady of Ransom.
Archbishop J C Heenan, of Liverpool accompanied by the Apostolic Delegate, Archbishop O'Hara, had come to crown his six years' episcopal work in the Diocese by consecrating his successor, Dr George Patrick Dwyer, who like himself had been through the hard school of the Catholic Missionary Society, and had followed him as Superior.
With them were Bishops Beck, AA (Salford), and Restieaux (Plymouth), the co-consecrators and Bishops Ellis (Nottingham), Flynn (Lancaster), Pearson (Auxiliary, Lancaster), Petit (Menevia), Brunner (Middlesbrough), and Craven (Westminster Auxiliary).
Also in the Sanctuary were the Monsignori and Canons, ten chaplains to the Archbishops and Bishops, four priest as Masters of Ceremonies,. Lord Semphill, Gentleman in attending on the Apostolic Delegate, two Knights of Malta in their robes, Captain S Tempest. and Capt. E Radcliff, and two uniformed Papal Knights, Mr J F Power and Mr .1 Brennan.
In the nave were relatives of Dr Dwyer, diocesan clergy. nuns from the sixty convents, representatives of men's and women's Catholic Societies, and Catholic Aldermen and Councillors.
The congregation crowded the aisles and side chapels and tilled the standing room in the porch, while many others stood outside to witness the processions before and after the Consecration.