Redemptoris Mater House of Formation

The Redemptoris Mater House of Formation in London forms men to become diocesan and missionary priests for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster to serve the New Evangelisation[1] and is part of the wider network of the Redemptoris Mater seminaries and the Neocatechumenal Way.

The Redemptoris Mater House of Formation in the Archdiocese of Westminster was established in 1991[2] by Cardinal Basil Hume and was officially established as a House of Formation within the structure of the Diocesan Seminary, Allen Hall on the 13th December 2013 with the public signing of its statute by the Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols. The House of Formation is dependent on the Allen Hall seminary for academic and formal priestly training[3] and upon the Neocatechumenal Way for spiritual and faith formation.

Cardinal Hume ordained the first deacon from the House of formation in October 1998, and was due to ordain him a priest in July 1999 but died in June 1999, just before the ordination to the priesthood took place at Westminster Cathedral. By the end of 2013, 12 priests from the Redemptoris Mater House of Formation had been ordained for the Archdiocese of Westminster.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.ewtn.com/new_evangelization/index.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.allenhall.org.uk/people/rm.html
  3. ↑ http://www.allenhall.org.uk/index.html

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Coordinates: 51°31′24″N 0°9′54″W / 51.52333°N 0.16500°W / 51.52333; -0.16500

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