Graham Leonard
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The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Mgr Graham Leonard KCVO PC DL |
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| Roman Catholic priest and retired former Anglican bishop |
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| Ordination |
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| Consecration | 1964 (Anglican bishop) |
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| Birth name | Graham Douglas Leonard |
| Born | 8 May 1921 |
| Died | 6 January 2010 (aged 88) |
| Nationality | English |
| Denomination |
Roman Catholic (previously Anglican) |
| Parents | Douglas Leonard and Emily Leonard (née Cheshire) |
| Spouse | Priscilla Swann (m. 1943) |
| Children | Two sons |
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| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
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| Military service | |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
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| Service/branch |
 British Army
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| Rank | Captain |
| Unit | Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry |
Graham Douglas Leonard KCVO (8 May 1921 – 6 January 2010) was an English Roman Catholic priest and former Anglican bishop. His principal ministry was as a bishop of the Church of England but, after his retirement as the Bishop of London, he became a Roman Catholic, becoming the most senior Anglican cleric to do so since the English Reformation. He was conditionally ordained to the priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church and was later appointed a monsignor by Pope John Paul II.
Born on 8 May 1921, he was the son of Douglas Leonard, an Anglican priest, and his wife, Emily Leonard (née Cheshire). Graham Leonard was educated at Monkton Combe School near Bath and at Balliol College, Oxford. During the Second World War he was commissioned into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, rising to the rank of captain. He spent the latter part of the war attached to the Army Operational Research Group for the Ministry of Supply. He then attended Westcott House theological college in Cambridge. He was ordained as a deacon in 1947 and as a priest the following year.
Leonard was a curate in St Ives, Huntingdonshire and at Stansted, Essex. He then spent three years as vicar of Ardleigh, Essex. In 1957 he became a residentiary canon of St Albans Cathedral and the diocesan director of religious education. His long association with the Diocese of London began in 1962 when, before becoming the Bishop of Willesden (a suffragan bishopric in the diocese) in 1964, he was appointed as Archdeacon of Hampstead and as rector of St Andrew Undershaft with St Mary Axe in the City of London.
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