Two excellent candidates for the Archdiocese of Westminster

who both have sound episcopal experience (prayer, combating error, growth in vocations, growth in parishes - number and quality, fidelity to the Pope). Sadly death and sanctity has deprived Westminster of their service.

St Charles Borromeo


St Francis de Sales


Pray for a holy man for Westminster, not a bishop who will be forced to resign after a number of years leaving a diocese and the Catholic Church in the country on theirknees, all those needed reforms sacrificed to wordly expediency.

Westminster and the Church in the wider world needs an imaginative appointment to this see, that sets the agenda for years to come, not a council of despair.

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I feel compelled to add to your list St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, onetime bishop of Santa Agata dei Goti who was not afraid to remind other bishops of their duties to their pope and their subjects... something England and Wales could use.