Province Liverpool Denomination Roman Catholic Ordination April 28, 1946 Nationality British Successor John Rawsthorne | Installed 30 May 1980 Died December 14, 1996 See Hallam Name Gerald Moverley Consecration December 6, 1967 | |
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Other posts Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Leeds (1967-1980) Diocese Roman Catholic Diocese of Hallam | ||
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
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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