Abbot Fitzgerald-Lombard to Bishop Smith: Beccles - proposed change of priests
Fitzgerald-Lombard, James Michael Hubert Charles Rev OSB MPhil (1941-)
Downside Abbey
Appointment
Smith, Peter David Gordon Rev LLB JCD (1943-2020)
Clark, Alan Charles Rev DD (1919-2002)
Blakesley, Simon Rev MCL JCL
Sketch, Anthony E Rev ( -2012)
Fr Edward's [surname?] telephone call advised him of the pressure to keep Fr Simon [Blakesley] at Beccles - cf Fr Sketch's "petition" at Deanery meeting - for a number of years yet. When proposing Fr Raphael Appleby (currently in Uganda but will supply to Bungay when Edward is away) to Bungay the Abbot recalled the agreement with Bishop Clark for Downside to take up the mission after three years. However, it seems that the parishioners quite like a secular priest and may prefer a trained priest to a monk out of cloisters. What does the Bishop think? Happy to let the current situation run indefinitely.
22 November 1995
1 side; headed; typescript
https://archive.rcdea.org.uk//pa03-01-04-28
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PA03
Beccles
Bungay