Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross

Mons. Harry Entwistle was born in 1940 in Chorley (England) and was baptized as an Anglican. He studied at “St. Chad’s College” of the University of Durham and was later ordained as an Anglican priest in 1964. After having exercised his ministry in Fleetwood, Hardwick, Weedon, Aston Abbots, and Cubligton, he served as a prison chaplain from 1974 to 1981, and from 1981 to 1988, he was “Senior Chaplain” of the Wansworth prison. He moved to Australia in 1988, where he became the “Senior Chaplain” for the “Department of Corrective Services” in the Diocese of Perth.
From 1992 until 1999, he was archdeacon and pastor in Northam, and from 1999 until 2006, he was pastor in Mt Lawley. In 2006, he became part of “Traditional Anglican Communion” and was appointed Bishop for the western region and pastor of Maylands in Perth. After being received into full communion with the Catholic Church, he was ordained as a deacon, and subsequently as a priest in the Perth Cathedral on 15 June 2012.