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          P639 · Person · 1915-2004

          1915: born on May 1 in the Angel Hotel at Clowne, Derbyshire, where his father was the landlord. The family moved to Great Yarmouth, where he attended the grammar school.
          1938: Oscott
          1942: ordained
          1949 - 1975: PP at Downham Market
          2004: died

          He went to the Jesuits' Campion House in Middlesex before going to the prestigious French seminary to become "a gentleman of St Sulpice"; but, in 1938, he was asked to leave after publishing an article suggesting that the Treaty of Versailles had been too severe on Germany to be the basis of a lasting peace. On returning home Baker was not accepted by the Jesuits, then earned a living selling books in Glasgow, tried the Dominicans, he eventually went to Oscott seminary at Birmingham. After being ordained priest in 1942, Baker served as a curate at Luton, High Wycombe and Wymondham, Norfolk, before going to Downham Market in 1949.
          When the New Mass came out in 1969, Fr. Baker refused to say it and continued to offer exclusively the Tridentine Latin Mass as codified by Pope St. Pius V in 1570. In 1975 Father Baker was suspended by Bishop Charles Grant. Bishop Grant told Fr. Baker not to say Mass in his Church, so Fr. Baker obediently said Mass in his Presbytery instead.
          With the help of donations a house was purchased for his presbytery & chapel, at 48 Bexwell Road, Downham Market, named the "St. Pius V Chapel". He said Mass there until his death in 2004
          In 1984 he explained that the present Pope was "no more a Catholic than Ian Paisley - and no more a pope than Billy Graham". He added that "the new Mass is a sacrilegious parody of the true Mass: it is sinful to take part in it."
          Gradually Baker's congregation fell to about 20, though it would swell when the film producer Mel Gibson, who bought a house nearby, appeared for Sunday Mass and stayed for coffee afterwards.
          On July 2 2004 Father Oswald Baker declared: "I am ready to die" - which he then did.

          P028 · Person · Ordained 2-7-1994

          Father Edmund joined the Diocese of East Anglia in September 1997, having previously been a member of the Order of Saint Benedict. He has served the following parishes and hospitals in the diocese:
          1997-2001 Assistant priest in Bury St. Edmunds parish
          2001-2003 Assistant priest in All Souls parish, Peterborough
          1998-2003 Served hospital chaplaincy departments at West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust and Peterborough District Hospital NHS Trust.
          2003-2010 Parish Priest of Downham Market parish
          2010 - Parish Priest of Woodbridge & Framlingham parish