Roger Francis Crispian Hollis (born 17 November 1936, in Bristol) is the Bishop Emeritus of Portsmouth for the Roman Catholic Church.
[3] He then went to the Venerable English College in Rome, where he was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Clifton on 11 July 1965, and subsequently received a Licentiate of Sacred Theology (STL).
He was assigned by the then Archbishop Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville special responsibility for the Oxfordshire area.
Hollis served for a time as a member of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications of the Roman Curia, He was Chairman of the Catholic Media Trust and also chaired the Bishops' Committee for Europe.
They found support in Hollis who sanctioned their resettlement at Holy Trinity Monastery, East Hendred,[8] situated in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire,[9] and part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth in 2004.
[15] Hollis actively encourages people to travel to Lourdes, to which he has a great attachment, first going there in 1967 as a chaplain with the Oxford University Pilgrimage and then going annually with them until 1981.