Crispian Hollis
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The Right Reverend Crispian Hollis |
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| Bishop Emeritus of Portsmouth | |
| Church | Roman Catholic |
| Province | Roman Catholic Province of Southwark |
| Diocese | Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth |
| In office | 5 May 1987–11 July 2012 |
| Predecessor | Anthony Joseph Emery |
| Successor | Philip Egan |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 11 July 1965 by William Theodore Heard |
| Consecration | 5 May 1987 by Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Roger Francis Crispian Hollis |
| Born |
17 November 1936 Bristol, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Parents | Christopher Hollis & Madeleine Hollis (née King) |
| Previous post | Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham and Titular Bishop of Cincari |
| Education | |
Roger Francis Crispian Hollis (born 17 November 1936, in Bristol) is the Bishop Emeritus of Portsmouth for the Roman Catholic Church. His parents were Christopher Hollis (1902–1977), the author and parliamentarian, and Madeleine Hollis (née King).
Both his parents were received into the Roman Catholic Church. He is possibly unique among Catholic bishops in being the grandson of an Anglican bishop, the Right Revd George Arthur Hollis (1868–1944), vice-principal of Wells Theological College and later suffragan Bishop of Taunton, and the nephew of another, the Right Revd Arthur Michael Hollis, Bishop of Madras (1942-1954).
Educated at Stonyhurst and Balliol, he graduated from Oxford in 1959 to start studying for the priesthood at the Pontifical Gregorian University while living at the Venerable English College.
Hollis was ordained a priest on 11 July 1965, about the same time that his uncle, Sir Roger Hollis, took early retirement.
After one year as a curate at Christ the King, Amesbury, Wiltshire, Hollis was posted to the Old Palace, which housed the Catholic chaplaincy in the University of Oxford. There he worked from 1967 to 1977, first as assistant to Father Michael Hollings, then as chaplain. In 1977 he was appointed Catholic Assistant to the Head of Religious Broadcasting at the BBC, a responsibility that ensured him a lifetime of contacts with the media.
In 1981 he was appointed Administrator of Clifton Cathedral in Bristol and Vicar General of the Diocese of Clifton, with special responsibility for ecumenical affairs. While still in this post, he was appointed a member of the IBA's panel of religious advisers and in 1986 became a member of the Central Religious Advisory Committee (CRAC) for the BBC and the IBA.
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