New Archbishop for Westminster Announced
Episcopal News Service. March 9, 2000 [2000-058H]
(ENS) Bishop Cormac Murphy-O'Connor was named the new Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster on February 15.
Murphy-O'Connor, currently bishop of Arundel and Brighton, will fill the position left vacant since the June 1999 death of Cardinal Basil Hume.
Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey said, "I am delighted to learn of the appointment of Bishop Cormac Murphy-O'Connor. I have known [him] well and regard [him] with great esteem."
"The Anglican Communion has a true friend in the new Archbishop," said Canon David Hamid, director of Ecumenical Affairs for the Anglican Communion Office. "Throughout the years he served as the Roman Catholic co-chairman of ARCIC, Bishop Cormac Murphy-O'Connor has come to know and understand us at a very deep level and he will bring to his new office a lively commitment to the search for full ecclesial unity."