Derek Worlock
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The Most Reverend Derek Worlock CH |
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| Archbishop of Liverpool | |
Derek Worlock, memorial portrait in Liverpool
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| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Archdiocese | Archdiocese of Liverpool |
| Province | Province of Liverpool |
| Appointed | 7 February 1976 |
| Term ended | 6 February 1996 |
| Predecessor | George Andrew Beck |
| Successor | Patrick Altham Kelly |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 3 June 1944 |
| Consecration | 21 December 1965 by John Carmel Heenan |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Derek John Harford Worlock |
| Born | 4 February 1920 London |
| Died | 6 February 1996 Liverpool |
| Buried | Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool |
| Nationality | British |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Parents | Captain Harford Worlock and Dora Worlock (née Hoblyn). |
| Previous post | Bishop of Portsmouth |
| Motto | Caritas Christi eluceat |
Derek John Harford Worlock, CH (4 February 1920 – 6 February 1996) was an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church; his highest posting was as Archbishop of Liverpool.
Worlock was born in London on 4 February 1920, the son of Captain Harford Worlock, a journalist, and his wife, Dora (née Hoblyn), a suffragette (or as she called herself, a "suffragist"). His father, a journalist turned Conservative political agent, attended Keble College, Oxford, and planned to become a priest in the Church of England; many of his forebears had been Anglican clergy. However, Harford and Dora Worlock converted to Roman Catholicism and raised their son in that faith.
Derek Worlock was a student at St Edmund's College from 1934 to 1944. By this time the family home was in Winchester. As a small boy he was rebuked for "having an answer to everything", a trait that remained. He was ordained to the priesthood at Westminster Cathedral on 3 June 1944, seminarians being exempt from military service so they could be rushed through to serve as chaplains. In theory he belonged to the Diocese of Portsmouth, but its bishop, William Timothy Cotter, expected his future priests to have an Irish background. Not long afterwards, he was appointed private secretary to Cardinal Griffin, and assisted successive cardinal-archbishops of Westminster for almost two decades. He attended every session of the Second Vatican Council between 1962 and 1965.
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