Sheffield, July 2014. Constantinian Chaplain the Rt Rev Ralph Heskett has been Installed as third Bishop of Hallam. The Mass of Installation took place in St Marie’s Cathedral in Sheffield on Thursday 10 July 2014.
Bishop Heskett succeeds Bishop John Rawsthorne who served Hallam as Bishop for just over 17 years. The Bishop was Ordained to the Episcopate in July 2010 becoming the seventh Bishop of Gibraltar – 100 years after the first. In May 2014, Pope Francis announced Bishop Heskett would be Installed Bishop of Hallam.
Bishop Heskett was decreed in 2013 as an Ecclesiastical Knight Commander of Grace of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St George. The Chancery extends its warmest congratulations and prayerful good wishes following this appointment.
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