The Bishop of Portsmouth

There has been a lot of interest in the blogosphere about the appointment, consecration and enthronement of the new Bishop of Portsmouth, Mgr Philip Egan. As his diocese extends as far north as Oxford, and  includes the parish of Holy Rood in Abingdon Road he is clearly of interest to Catholics here. There are a number of posts, with links, on the net about him and his consecration.

The Portsmouth diocesan website has videos and texts here.

There is a summary of the Archbishop of Westminster's sermon at Archbishop Nichols Welcomes Portsmouth Successor of the Apostles from the Zenit website.

Fr Blake has three posts Congratulations to Bishop Egan, Bishop Egan's address to his new diocese and Bishop Egan's Pictures .

Fr Tim Finigan has two - "I want to be a courageous orthodox bishop"  and May he indeed be a humble and holy, orthodox, crea...