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'''Graham Douglas Leonard''' [[Royal Victorian Order|KCVO]]<ref>[http://www.debretts.com/forms-of-address/professions/religion/church-of-england/general-notes.aspx Debrett's – The Church of England: General Notes]</ref> (8 May 1921 – 6 January 2010) was an [[English people|English]] [[Priesthood (Catholic Church)|Roman Catholic priest]] and former [[Anglican ministry#Bishops|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 Catholicism|Roman Catholic]], becoming the most senior [[Anglicanism|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]].<ref>''Bishop of London who became the most senior Anglican defector to Rome since the Reformation'', obituary in the [[Daily Telegraph]], issue number 48,085 dated 7 January 2010, p. 31</ref>
'''Graham Douglas Leonard''' [[Royal Victorian Order|KCVO]]<ref>[http://www.debretts.com/forms-of-address/professions/religion/church-of-england/general-notes.aspx Debrett's – The Church of England: General Notes] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120901070847/http://www.debretts.com/forms-of-address/professions/religion/church-of-england/general-notes.aspx |date=1 September 2012 }}</ref> (8 May 1921 – 6 January 2010) was an [[English people|English]] [[Priesthood (Catholic Church)|Roman Catholic priest]] and former [[Anglican ministry#Bishops|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 Catholicism|Roman Catholic]], becoming the most senior [[Anglicanism|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]].<ref>''Bishop of London who became the most senior Anglican defector to Rome since the Reformation'', obituary in the [[Daily Telegraph]], issue number 48,085 dated 7 January 2010, p. 31</ref>


==Early life==
==Early life==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.ad2000.com.au/articles/2002/mar2002p8_938.html Former Anglican Bishop of London explains why he became a Catholic]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060214203214/http://www.ad2000.com.au/articles/2002/mar2002p8_938.html Former Anglican Bishop of London explains why he became a Catholic]
*[http://truro.anglican.org/b11.htm Bishops of Truro photo gallery]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060516081000/http://truro.anglican.org/b11.htm Bishops of Truro photo gallery]
*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/6943119/The-Rt-Rev-Mgr-Graham-Leonard.html Mgr Graham Leonard] &ndash; Daily Telegraph obituary
*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/6943119/The-Rt-Rev-Mgr-Graham-Leonard.html Mgr Graham Leonard] &ndash; Daily Telegraph obituary
*[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/06/monsignor-graham-leonard-obituary Monsignor Graham Leonard] - Guardian obituary
*[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/06/monsignor-graham-leonard-obituary Monsignor Graham Leonard] - Guardian obituary

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For those of a similar name, see Leonard Graham (disambiguation).
Roman Catholic priest and
former Bishop of London
Orders
Ordination
  • 1947 (Anglican deacon)
  • 1948 (Anglican priest)
  • 23 April 1994 (Catholic priest)
Consecration1964 (Anglican bishop)
Personal details
Born
Graham Douglas Leonard

(1921-05-08)8 May 1921
Died6 January 2010(2010-01-06) (aged 88)
NationalityEnglish
DenominationRoman Catholic
(previously Anglican)
ParentsDouglas Leonard and Emily Leonard (née Cheshire)
SpousePriscilla Swann (m. 1943)
ChildrenTwo sons
Previous post(s)
Alma materBalliol College, Oxford
Graham Leonard
Military service
Allegiance United Kingdom
Branch/service British Army
RankCaptain
UnitOxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

Graham Douglas Leonard

Roman Catholic Church and was later appointed a monsignor by Pope John Paul II.[2]

Early life

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.[3]

Early ministry

Leonard was a

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.[4]

Episcopal ministry

Leonard had three

Royal Household office, for which he was appointed Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO).[10] He was also Prelate of the Order of the British Empire.[11]

Ordination in the Roman Catholic Church

As the Bishop of London, Leonard had been admired for his pastoral concern for female staff at Church House and had a considerable number of female workers in parishes in his diocese. He was notable for ordaining 71 women as deacons at St Paul's Cathedral on 22 March 1987,[12] but he remained an outspoken critic of moves to ordain women to the priesthood within the Anglican Communion. After his retirement Leonard eventually left the Church of England to become a Roman Catholic. On 23 April 1994 he was conditionally ordained as a priest (but not as a bishop) in the Roman Catholic Church. Although the Roman Catholic Church does not recognise the validity of Anglican ordinations, Leonard's ordination was conditional due to there being "prudent doubt" about his previous ordination in the Church of England, because at Leonard's own consecration in 1964 a bishop of an Old Catholic church of the Union of Utrecht (whose own ordination as a bishop was recognised as valid by the Roman Catholic Church) was among the bishops who consecrated him.[13] This eased his reception into the Roman Catholic Church, although his claim that he was legitimately a bishop and his request for a personal prelature were rejected.[14]

Leonard stated that he was not first ordained a deacon[

prelate of honour by the Pope on 3 August 2000.[15]

Family

Leonard was the brother-in-law to the late academic

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
, having married their sister, Priscilla Swann, in 1943. He and his wife had two sons.

National Portrait Gallery

Nine portraits of Leonard (1962 by Elliott & Fry and 1979 by Bassano and Vandyk) are owned by the National Portrait Gallery.[16]

References

  1. ^ Debrett's – The Church of England: General Notes Archived 1 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Daily Telegraph
    , issue number 48,085 dated 7 January 2010, p. 31
  3. ^ Who's Who, 1987, page 1071
  4. ^ "No. 43432". The London Gazette. 11 September 1964. p. 7670.
  5. ^ "No. 46071". The London Gazette. 7 September 1973. p. 10695.
  6. ^ "No. 48758". The London Gazette. 7 October 1981. p. 12687.
  7. ^ "No. 48628". The London Gazette. 2 June 1981. p. 7523.
  8. ^ "No. 52534". The London Gazette. 16 May 1991. p. 7593.
  9. ^ "No. 48686". The London Gazette. 21 July 1981. p. 9605.
  10. ^ "No. 52525". The London Gazette. 7 May 1991. p. 7063.
  11. ^ "No. 48697". The London Gazette. 4 August 1981. p. 10105.
  12. ^ Alan Webster, Monsignor Graham Leinard obituary, in: Guardian.co.uk, 6 January 2010
  13. ^ "Statement of Cardinal Hume on the Ordination of Anglican Bishop Leonard as a Roman Catholic Priest". The Catholic Resource Network. Trinity Communications. 1994. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
  14. ^ Christopher Ralls, Mgr Graham Leonard. Obituary, In The Tablet: The International Catholic Weekly, 16 January 2010, p. 37
  15. ^ "The Rt Rev Mgr Graham Leonard". The Telegraph. London. 6 January 2010. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
  16. ^ National Portrait Gallery Graham Douglas Leonard

External links

Church of England titles
Preceded by Bishop of Willesden
1964–1973 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
John Key
 Bishop of Truro
1973–1981 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Bishop of London
1981–1991 		Succeeded by

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