Harry Entwistle

Harry Entwistle
The Reverend Monsignor; Harry Entwistle; PA
	Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Appointed	15 June 2012
Term ended	27 March 2019
Predecessor	new post
Successor	Carl Reid
Other posts	Western Regional Bishop (ACCA), (2006–2012)
Orders
Ordination	20 September 1964 (C of E); 15 June 2012 (RCC); by Timothy Costelloe (Catholic)
Consecration	24 November 2006 (ACCA)
Personal details
Born	31 May 1940; Chorley, Lancashire, England
Nationality	British
Denomination	Roman Catholic; (formerly Anglican)
Alma mater	St Chad's Theological College
Motto	Par ce signe; "By this sign"
Coat of arms

Harry Entwistle (born 31 May 1940) is an English-born Australian priest of the Catholic Church who was the first ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross (2012–2019).[1][2]

Early life

Entwistle was born on 31 May 1940.[3] He studied theology for ordination at St Chad's Theological College, University of Durham.[4]

Entwistle was ordained a priest in the Church of England Diocese of Blackburn in 1964. After various parish appointments in Lancashire, he became a prison chaplain, serving at HMP Wandsworth from 1981 to 1988. He migrated to Australia in 1988 and continued his parish and prison ministry in the Diocese of Perth of the Anglican Church of Australia. He entered the Anglican Catholic Church in Australia, a member church of the Traditional Anglican Communion, in 2006.[4] He served as Western Regional Bishop of that church from 2006 to 2012.[5]

After reception into the Roman Catholic Church and ordination as a deacon, Entwistle was ordained to the priesthood at St Mary's Cathedral, Perth, on 15 June 2012.[3] On the same day he was appointed Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross.[6] Entwistle was granted the title of Monsignor by Pope Benedict XVI in one of his last acts before retirement.[7]

Official Vatican Website Archived 2013-01-14 at Archive.today (retrieved 15 June 2012)
"The Anglo-Catholic - Ordinariate Established for Australia". Retrieved 17 June 2012.
"Father Harry Entwistle [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
"Holy See establishes ordinariate in Australia". Catholic Herald. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
Staff (2012-06-18). "Oz gets an ordinariate". Anglican Journal. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
"Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, Australia and Japan". GCatholic. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
"Monsignor Harry Entwistle". The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross. Retrieved 2019-01-18.

Catholic Church titles
New title	Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross 2012–2019	Succeeded by Carl Reid

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