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Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
under the patronage of Saint John Henry Newman

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BISHOP DAVID WALLER

The Episcopal Ordination of Bishop David Waller took place at Westminster Cathedral. London, on Saturday 22nd June 2024, the Feast of St John Fisher and St Thomas More. The principal consecrator was His Eminence Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Bishop David is the first Bishop of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. The first Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, Monsignor Keith Newton PA, was made Ordinary by Pope Benedict XVI in 2011 at the erection of the Ordinariate, but as a married priest could not be a bishop.

It is a great honour that Pope Francis has appointed one of our own priests to be the second Ordinary and shows his commitment to the Ordinariates established under Anglicanorum coetibus by his predecessor.

Bishop David Waller was born in London on 10th June 1961 and educated at the School of St David and St Katharine in Hornsey and the College of Ripon and York St John, University of Leeds. From 1983 to 1989 he worked as a community worker in Bradford, which was one of the most impoverished areas of the United Kingdom.

In 1989 he left Bradford to train for Anglican orders at Chichester Theological College and was Ordained Deacon in 1991 and Priest the following year. He served two parochial appointments in the Diocese of Chichester: Curate of Aldwick (1991-1995) and Team Vicar of Crawley (1995-2000); during this time, he was also a member of the Diocesan Synod and a part-time hospital chaplain.

In 2000 he moved to East London to become Vicar of the Parish of St Saviour, Walthamstow; he remained in this post until his reception into the Catholic Church. From 2005 until 2010 he served as a member of the General Synod of the Church of England.In Holy Week 2011, he was received into the full communion of the Catholic Church.

After he was ordained to the diaconate and the priesthood, following the provisions of Anglicanorum coetibus, he was named Pastor of the Walthamstow Ordinariate Mission and has also held two diocesan parochial appointments: Parochial Administrator of St John the Baptist Ilford (2011-2015) and Parish Priest of Christ the King Chingford (since 2015). Bishop Waller has been Chairman of the Governing Council of the Ordinariate since its establishment; and for the past four years has served as Vicar General.