Bishops Diaries

A NUMBER of the bishops are in Dublin this weekend for the 150th anniversary celebrations of All Hallow's College. They include Archbishop Michael Bowen of Southwark, Bishops Francis Walmsley of the Forces, Christopher Budd of Plymouth, Joseph Gray of Shrewsbury and Patrick Kelly of Salford. Later in the week, Archbishop Bowen attends a dinner of the Friends of St George's Cathedral.
Bishop Vincent Malone, auxiliary in Liverpool, visits Our Lady of Fatima High School and St Margaret Mary's School, both in Liverpool, during the week.
A service to celebrate Sunderland becoming a city is attended by Bishop Ambrose Griffiths of Hexham and Newcastle, who also visits a conference on Catholic social teaching next weekend. Bishop Vincent Nichols of north London celebrates mass at London University Catholic Chaplaincy.
Catholics in the Middlesbrough diocese can hear their auxiliary bishop. Kevin O'Brien, speak on Radio Humberside each morning next week. He also attends Founders Day at Hull University on Wednesday, three days after Bishop Augustine Harris of the diocese celebrates Mass at a day of renewal at Ampleforth. Also on air during the week is Bishop Alan Clark of East Anglia, who speaks on Radio Norfolk on Wednesday.
Bishop David Konstant of Leeds attends a meeting with his junior clergy at Myddelton Lodge, as does Bishop John Brewer at Brettargh Holt,while Bishop John Crowley, auxiliary in Westminster, meets with newly ordained priests in Mill Hill.
In midweek, Bishop Leo McCartie of Northampton attends a celebration for the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre in Northampton, Bishop Thomas McMahon of Brentwood chairs a meeting of the bishops pastoral liturgy committee at Newmarket and Bishop John Jukes, auxiliary in Southwark, attends a meeting at the Institute of Business Ethics.
Next weekend, Bishop Howard Tripp, auxiliary in Southwark, attends a meeting of the Catholic Association for Racial Justice, while Bishop Daniel Mullins of Menevia celebrates a requiem mass for deceased Sisters and Bishop John Rawsthorne, auxiliary in Liverpool, attends an inter-church families meeting in Crosby.
Elsewhere, Bishop Budd celebrates a Mass for Architects at Farm Street, London on Friday, and the day after Bishop Charles Henderson, auxiliary in Southwark, attends a Dinner Dance of the Waterford Association in London.
Obituaries
FR George Ingram died last month at the Maryfield Nursing Home in Bournmouth. He had been a priest for 61 of his 86 years.
Born in August 1906, he was educated at John Lyon School, Harrow, and St Edmund's College, Ware. He was ordained in June 1931 and appointed Co Holy Ghost and St Stephen's, Shepherds Bush, and then St Joseph's, Hanwell.
He became parish priest at St Alden's, East Acton, in 1942, and St Philip the Apostle, Finchley, from 1957.
Ill heath forced his retirement in 1964 and after moving to Bournmouth was able to continue to celebrate mass at a local convent. His funeral was at St Joseph's, Poole. Dorset, on 2 October.
FR Gerald McDonald, retired parish priest of Holy Angels. Hale Barns, Cheshire, has died. He was 75.
The middle of five children, he was born in Latchford, near Warrington, in 1917 and educated at Our Lady's, Latchford, Cotton College and Ushaw College. He was ordained by Bishop Moriarty at Our Lady's, and was appointed to St Alban's, Macclesfield, then St Edward's, Runcorn, in 1953.
Five years later he became the first parish priest of Holy Angels, Hale Barns, and oversaw the building of the church and presbytery designed by architect Arthur Farebrother and based on the Benedictine Abbey of Quarr on the Isle of Wight. Fr McDonald, who had been cared for at Kilpeacon House, Altrincham, for some time, was remembered at a requiem Mass at Holy Angels on 28 September.
THE parish priest of Ss Peter and Paul, Yeadon, Leeds, Fr Michael Conlin, died on 24 October at Leeds General Infirmary after a long illness. He was aged 50.
Born in Leeds, the son of a doctor, Michael Conlin studied for the priesthood at Ushaw College, Durham, and was ordained at Leeds Cathedral in May 1967. He served as secretary to Bishop William Gordon Wheeler (then Bishop of Leeds) between 1972 and 1978, and was the last priest to be diocesan secretary of schools before the appointment of a lay director in 1986.
During those years he was curate in Handsworth in Sheffield, Ossett, and two parishes in Leeds. He took over as parish priest in Yeadon in 1986.
DE LA SALLE Brother Elwin Joseph Wilson has died exactly 69 years after making his vows. He was 85.
Having spent his early years in India as the son of a military family, Br Elwin received his training with the De La Salle order in Dover and Guernsey. He taught and was superior at St Joseph's College. Upper Norwood, for over 30 years. He also served in Malta, Bournemouth and Brighton, and was superior for the order's students in Oxford.