Former Head of Influential Anglican Seminary Received Into Catholic Church

February 19, 2026 World News

Canon Robin Ward announced on social media Feb. 14 that he had been received into the Church at St. Michael’s Benedictine Abbey, Farnborough, by its abbot, Benedictine Dom Cuthbert Brogan. The new Catholic said in his post: ‘Has been received into the Catholic Church. Please pray for me.’

Robin Ward, a patristics scholar who formed generations of clergy at St. Stephen’s House in Oxford, says he now ‘rejoices without regret or hesitation’ in the Catholic Church.

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