Gerald Moverley Explained

Type:bishop
Honorific-Prefix:The Right Reverend
Gerald Moverley
Bishop of Hallam
Province:Liverpool
Diocese:Hallam
See:Hallam
Term Start:30 May 1980
Successor:John Rawsthorne
Other Post:Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Leeds (1967-1980)
Ordination:28 April 1946
Consecration:6 December 1967
Consecrated By:Bishop Gordon Wheeler
Birth Date:9 April 1922
Birth Place:Bradford
Death Date:14 December 1996
Nationality:British
Religion:Roman Catholic
Gerald Moverley
Dipstyle:The Right Reverend
Relstyle:Bishop
Deathstyle:not applicable

Gerald Moverley (9 April 1922 - 14 December 1996) was the first Bishop of the Diocese of Hallam in Yorkshire from 30 May 1980 until July 1996 when he resigned due to ill health.

Born in Bradford, England, Gerald Moverley was ordained priest on 28 April 1946, aged 24, in Leeds.

Moverley earned a Doctorate of Canon Law at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum in 1954[1]

Moverley was consecrated by Bishop William Gordon Wheeler. On 6 December 1967, aged 45, he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Leeds and Titular Bishop of Tinis in Proconsulari.

He died in 1996 as Bishop Emeritus of Hallam and was succeeded by Rt. Rev. John Rawsthorne on 3 July 1997.

He had been a priest for 50 years and a bishop for almost 29 years.

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Notes and References

  1. Dissertation title: The theatre law of the first and fourth provincial councils of Westminster