Bernard Longley
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His Grace The Most Reverend Bernard Longley |
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| Archbishop of Birmingham | |
Archbishop Longley in the Oxford Oratory, 2010
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| Archdiocese | Birmingham |
| Province | Birmingham |
| Appointed | 1 October 2009 |
| Installed | 8 December 2009 |
| Predecessor | Vincent Nichols |
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| Ordination | 12 December 1981 |
| Consecration | 24 January 2003 by Cormac Murphy-O'Connor |
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5 April 1955 Manchester, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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| Motto | Ut unum sint |
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Styles of Bernard Longley |
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Grace |
| Religious style | Monsignor |
Bernard Longley KC*HS (born 5 April 1955) is an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was named the Archbishop of Birmingham on 1 October 2009, and installed by Bishop David McGough and presented with his crozier by Archbishop Vincent Nichols, his predecessor, in St Chad's Cathedral at a Solemn Mass on 8 December 2009, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, attended by 600 people. Previously he was an Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster.
Bernard Longley was born in Manchester and was educated at Xaverian College in Rusholme. He later studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and New College, Oxford. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton on 12 December 1981. He then served as an assistant priest at St. Joseph's Church in Epsom and as a chaplain to psychiatric hospitals.
Longley became Surrey Chairman of Diocesan Commission for Christian Unity in 1991, and National Ecumenical Officer at the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales in 1996. From 1987 to 1996, he taught dogmatic theology at St. John's Seminary in Wonersh. In 1999, he was named Moderator of the Steering Committee of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, as well as Assistant General Secretary of Catholic Bishops' Conference with responsibilities for Ecumenism and Interfaith Affairs.
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