Keith Newton (prelate)

Keith Newton (born 10 April 1952) is an English priest and prelate of the Catholic Church.

On 7 March 2002, Newton was consecrated as an Anglican bishop by George Carey, the then Archbishop of Canterbury.

[8] In 2008, Newton met officials of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to discuss the possibility of joining the Catholic Church.

[8] Newton was received into the Catholic Church on 1 January 2011, at Westminster Cathedral, with his wife Gill, by Bishop Alan Hopes.

[1] As a married man, according to its canon law, the Catholic Church did not permit his consecration as a bishop but it was possible for him to be ordained a priest as a former Anglican cleric.

Newton and his wife Gill after his ordination as a Catholic deacon
Newton with Pope Benedict XVI in April 2011