CATHOLIC CHURCH
DELEGATE APOSTOLIC TO BRITAIN VATICAN ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, November 23. (Received November 24, at noon.) It is announced from Vatican Gity that Monsignor William Godfrey, rector of the English College in Rome, has been appointed delegate apostolic to Great Britain with residence in England. Monsignor Godfrey was a member of the delegation at the Coronation. He was born at Liverpool in 1889. He became a priest in 1916 and is a member of the Supreme Council for the propagation of the Faith. It is expected that ho will be nominated a titular archbishop before coming to Britain in January. It was explained in the Vatican City that the position which Monsignor Godfrey assumes is of ecclesiastical importance in representation of the Rope to British Catholics, but he will not have diplomatic status, nor be entrusted with a diplomatic mission. Nevertheless, although the appointment is purely clerical, Vatican circles, it is reported, are hopeful that it will contribute to the maintenance of good relations with Britain.
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Evening Star, Issue 23123, 24 November 1938, Page 12
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