Mrs Kate Griffin DSG received her award from His Eminence Cardinal Vincent Nichols at her parish Church, St Edward of Canterbury, Whitton on 31 May 2023.
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Investiture of Mrs Kate Griffin DSG
Author: Rosemary Godfrey
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Zbigniew Lis KSS KM
Zbigniew Lis KSS KM received his award from Mgr Wladyslaw Wyszowadzki at the Polish Church of Christ the King in London in December 2022. His sponsors, Dr Bozena Laskiewicz DCSS and Grazyna Bielecki DSG are shown with him.
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Thomas McPherson KSG
Thomas McPherson KSG, Dunkeld Diocese.
Professor Edward Morgan KC KCSS was invested as a Knight Commander of St.Sylvester by the Most Rev Malcolm McMahon, Archbishop of Liverpool at St.Clare’s Church in Liverpool.
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Investiture of Edward Poyser KSG
Edward Poyser KSG with his wife, Margi, receiving his award from the Bishop of Nottingham, The Rt.Rev. Patrick McKinney, November 22.
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Corpus Christi Celebrations 2023
Our Corpus Christi Celebrations took place in Arundel on Thursday 8 June 2023.
Above are a selection of photographs taken of the Blessed Sacrament procession from the Cathedral to the Castle and at dinner afterwards in the Castle.
Once again we were blessed with glorious weather and the floral displays in the Cathedral were a sight to behold.
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Annual Dinner 2022
Once again our annual dinner took place in the Vincent rooms, Vincent Square and over 100 people attended. It was again a joyous occasion, made all the more so by the wonderful Mass beforehand in Westminster Cathedral, celebrated by our Guest of Honour, The Most Rev George Stack, Archbishop Emeritus of Cardiff, ably assisted by our Chaplain, Rev. Mgr Vladimir Felzmann. We are very grateful to all those who participated, including our faithful contingent from Scotland.
Below is a picture of our group in the Sacristy, preparing to process in to the Cathedral for Mass.
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Can you Identify this Knight?
Could any members help in identifying the subject of this portrait? If you can, please contact Richard d’Apice direct, who has written as follows:
I seek your assistance in my attempts to obtain information about the subject of the attached portrait which I recently purchased in Sydney. On purchase the subject was unidentified but, in a previous sale, I find him identified as Joseph Gates OBE. The OBE must have come after 1972 as he is not wearing it in the portrait which carries that date.
The artist is Anthony Harper whom I have difficulty in identifying.
Richard d’Apice AM KCSG KGCHS,
Secretary and Treasurer, Association of Papal Orders, Australia
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30th Annual Celebration in Portsmouth
On Thursday 1st September 2022, Bishop Philip celebrated the annual mass of St. Gregory the Great for Diocesan Papal Knights and Dames of the Equestrian Orders of St. Gregory the Great and St. Silvester at the Cathedral. They were joined by others from our neighbouring dioceses. A total of 45 attended, the best turn-out ever.
At the luncheon afterwards a project and competition for our schools on St. Gregory and St. Sylvester was launched by Joanna Bogle DSG with the proposal to invite the winners to the 2023 celebration to receive their prizes.
We then heard ‘Bamenda the first 50 years’ a brief history of our Diocese’s involvement with the Diocese (now a Archdiocese) of Bamenda led by Colm Lennon KSG assisted by Fr’s Bernardine Nsom and Peter Codd. It was in 1974 that Bishop Derek Worlock then bishop of Portsmouth initiated a diocesan twinning with bishop Paul Verdgzekov the first bishop of the recently created diocese of Bamenda, the capital of the North West Province in Cameroon, West Africa, a practical demonstration of the Vatican II document ‘Gaudium et Spes’ (Hope & Joy).
Priests went from Portsmouth to serve in Bamenda and over the past nearly 50 years more than £1million has been raised by Portsmouth parishioners for projects that have been successfully implemented in the areas of Faith, Health, Education and Social Welfare. Currently there are six priests from Bamenda now serving in parishes across the Portsmouth Diocese.
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Investiture of Roland Hayes KSG
Most Rev Bernard Longley, Archbishop of Birmingham, invested Roland Hayes as a Knight of St. Gregory on 27th February 2022 in the chapel of the Saint Barnabas Society in Oxford. Angie Hayes, Roland’s wife was also present at the ceremony.
Association of Papal Orders in Great Britain 