66 colour images showing people processing, eating, relaxing, talking, attending Mass, etc.
UnknownPhotographic record of the Consecration of Bishop Peter Smith by Cardinal Basil Hume at St John the Baptist Cathedral, Norwich on 27 May 1995.
UnknownPhotographic record of the 2001 East Anglia Diocese Pilgrimage to Walsingham. Images of procession (people / banners / priests / etc.); image of pilgrims in area before Church of Reconciliation.
Milton, Anne MissPapal Nuncio visited RCDEA and a photographic record exists for OLEM, Cambridge; Walsingham; St John's Primary School, Heigham Road, Norwich; Norwich Cathedral [Anglican]
Michael Manni PhotographicMinutes of the Sheringham CWL section from 15 April 1991 to 16 March 1992; entries typescript with some pages glued in, others loose
Translation of Latin text:
PAUL, BISHOP, SERVANT OF THE SERVANTS OF GOD (as a perpetual record)
That which the second Vatican Council laid down concerning the delineation of ecclesiastical boundaries We judge to apply to the Diocese of Northampton, which it appears opportune to divide so as to create a new diocese. For by God’s favour the welfare of the Catholic Church in the large eastern part of the diocese seems to have prospered, and seems likely to prosper further in the future.
At the request therefore of our Venerable Brother Charles Alexander Grant, Bishop of Northampton, with the support of Episcopal Conference of England and Wales, that we should establish a new diocese by the division of the same. We, on the advice of our venerable Brother Bruno Bernard Heim, titular Bishop of Xanthia and Apostolic Delegate to Great Britain, by our Apostolic power determine and ordain the following.
From the Diocese of Northampton We remove those counties known in English as Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk, and erect them into a Diocese to be known as East Anglia, to be circumscribed by and coterminous with the said counties. Its See is to be located in the City of Norwich, and the Bishop’s cathedra set up in the church of Saint John the Baptist, in the same city, which is to be its cathedral. To the Bishop we grant those rights proper to, and impose upon him those obligations incumbent upon, resident bishops. The said diocese shall be suffragan to the metropolitan See of Westminster, and the Bishop subject to the Archbishop of the said See. The Bishop’s support is to be provided for from the income of the diocesan Curia, the moneys given by the faithful and that part of the diocesan property agreed upon by the ordinaries concerned, whilst respecting the wishes of any respective pious founders or benefactors.
Until such time as a Chapter of Canons shall be established, diocesan Consultors are to be appointed according to law. As far as the government and administration of the diocese are concerned, the election of a Vicar capitular, and other similar matters, are to be strictly adhered to. A seminary is also to be set up, and boys and young men are to be educated therein, according to the norms of the Second Vatican Council and the rules laid down by the Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education. As for the clergy, we determine that those priests be assigned to the Diocese of East Anglia who hold a benefice or ecclesiastical office therein: other clergy are to belong to the diocese in which they lawfully reside. However, the diocesan Bishops, on consultation with the priests and clerics concerned, may if necessary make other provision for their incardination, as seems fitting.
Finally, the documents and acts concerning the diocese of East Anglia are to be sent to its Curia to be preserved in its archive.
Let our aforementioned Venerable Brother Bruno Heim provide for the execution of these matters which we have prescribed, and on their conclusion send an account of the same to the Sacred Congregation for Bishops.
We wish these Apostolic letters to be ratified, now and in the future, all things to the contrary notwithstanding.
Given in Rome, at St Peter’s, on the thirteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seventy six, the thirteenth of our Pontificate.
+John, Cardinal Villot +Sebastian Cardinal Baggio
Secretary of State Prefect of the S. Congregation for Bishops
Godfrey Mariani, Protonotary Apostolic
35 pages; contents:
p3: Reference and Administrative Details
p4-11: Report of Trustees
p11-12: Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities
p13-14: Auditors' Report
p15: Statement of Financial Activities
p16: Balance Sheet
p17: Statement of Cash Flows
p18-35: Notes of Financial Statements
35 pages; contents:
p3: Reference and Administrative Details
p4-11: Report of Trustees
p12: Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities
p13-14: Auditors' Report
p15: Statement of Financial Activities
p16: Balance Sheet
p17: Statement of Cash Flows
p18-35: Notes of Financial Statements
36 pages; contents:
p3: Reference and Administrative Details
p4-12: Report of Trustees
p12: Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities
p13-15: Auditors' Report
p16: Statement of Financial Activities
p17: Balance Sheet
p18: Statement of Cash Flows
p19-36: Notes of Financial Statements
38 pages; contents:
p3: Reference and Administrative Details
p4-14: Report of Trustees
p15: Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities
p16-18 Auditors' Report
p19: Statement of Financial Activities
p20: Balance Sheet
p21: Statement of Cash Flows
p22-38: Notes of Financial Statements
41 pages; contents:
p3: Reference and Administrative Details
p4-16: Report of Trustees
p17: Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities
p18-20: Auditors' Report
p21: Statement of Financial Activities
p22: Balance Sheet
p23: Statement of Cash Flows
p24-41: Notes of Financial Statements
40 pages; contents:
p3: Reference and Administrative Details
p4-15: Report of Trustees
p16: Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities
p17-19: Auditors' Report
p20: Statement of Financial Activities
p21: Balance Sheet
p22: Statement of Cash Flows
p23-40: Notes of Financial Statements
39 pages; contents:
p3: Reference and Administrative Details
p4-14: Report of Trustees
p15: Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities
p16-18: Auditors' Report
p19: Statement of Financial Activities
p20: Balance Sheet
p21: Statement of Cash Flows
p22-39: Notes of Financial Statements
Massive incoming post causes delay. Can debate the central point of the letter: the inadequacy of the New Order Mass compared to the Tridentine Mass. Vatican II debated extensively and profoundly and from there was promulgated the "Constitution of the Sacred Piturgy" in 1963 from which came the April 1969 Apostolic letter of Pope Paul. Fr Baker has known of the1970 Hierarchy directive and has deliberately put his Bishop in an impossible position but is following Canon Law; he could have acted summarily.
Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)Laying out the issues which the Bishop had to consider along with the historic background and identifying the parts of relevant Canon Law, the Bishop invites Fr Baker to resign as Parish Priest in Downham Market
Grant, Charles Alexander Rev LCL BA (1906-1989)The root of the trouble at Downham Market is not the use of Latin but the disobedience of Fr Baker. Catholics not properly prepared for the changes, hence those being upset. Arbitrary experimentation by some priests have not helped - hence a longing for the old familiar Mass. The new rite has been established as valid and free form doctrinal error.
Barker, Marion Tess OSB"..It is only just to you to hear from me the extent of the reasons why this change in the status of Downham Market has been judged imperative by both the Bishop and myself."
Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)Fr Baker's ministry is harmful being direct and open disobedience of the Holy See. A review of the documents sent by Fr Baker were considered by the Synodal Examiner and the Pro-Synodal Examiner as not a sufficient answer and his ministry was harmful. Fr Baker had refused to resign and hence the Bishop is removing him from his office as Parish Priest at Downham Market. He has to hand over to Father Sketch.
Grant, Charles Alexander Rev LCL BA (1906-1989)