Missions

The Ordinariate in Bournemouth

Saint Thomas More Catholic Church
42 Exton Road
Iford, Bournemouth
BH6 5QG

Welcome to our mission in

Bournemouth

Welcome to the webpage for the Bournemouth Ordinariate Mission, and greetings to you from Fr Darryl Jordan, my family and all our members. I am Group Pastor of Bournemouth, Parish Priest of Iford and RC Chaplain of Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Trust.

My wife Lisa and I are naturalised Britons and native Texans who love 'Prayer Book Catholic' Anglicanism, always preferring 'thee' and 'thou' to modern pronouns. Just as we're both/and, Texan and Briton, we aren't 'ex-'Anglicans who 'became' Catholic; we're 'completed Anglican' Catholics. With a nod to Blessed John Henry Newman our co-Patron with OLW, we lost nothing (from Scripture and Tradition) but we gained everything else (the Magisterium, our Reason for becoming 'Roman').

By agreement between our Ordinary the Rt Rev'd Mgr Keith Newton PA and the RC Bishop of Portsmouth the Rt Rev'd Philip Egan PhD, both the Ordinariate's Bournemouth Mission and the Diocese's Iford Parish meet at St Thomas More RC Church, Iford. The relationship between the congregations is cordial, and Ordinariate members share in the overall parish ministries.

Masses for Iford Parish, Bournemouth Ordinariate Mission and Bournemouth Latin Mass Society are celebrated every Sunday and Holyday of Obligation.

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Mission leadership

Fr Darryl Jordan

Group Pastor
Retired

Parish Priest
Retired
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Announcements
March 26, 2026
“A Precious Gift”: Rome Affirms the Ordinariate’s Mission
During the Plenary Meeting of the Bishop Ordinaries of the Personal Ordinariates established under the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus (2009), held at the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith from 1 to 3 March 2026, His Eminence Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández...
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Pastoral Letters
March 18, 2026
Bishop David Waller
Pastoral Letter | March 2026
Dear Friends, One of the distinguishing features of the Ordinariates’ calendar is the keeping of the season of “Pre-Lent”: the weeks preceding Ash Wednesday, including the Sundays known as Septuagesima; Sexagesima...
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