Bishop David Arthur Waller

The Ordinary

Bishop David is the first Bishop Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

He was educated in Hornsey, North London and the University of Leeds. After completing formation for Anglican Orders at Chichester Theological College, his Anglican ministry began, in 1991 in Aldwick and later in Crawley in the Diocese of Chichester, before he took on the post of Vicar of St Saviour’s, Walthamstow in East London in 2000. He also served on the General Synod of the Church of England from 2005-2010. Father Waller was received into the Catholic Church in 2011 as part of the first group of Anglican clergy and their people in response to the generous offer of a home under the provisions of Pope Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Constitution, Anglicanorum Coetibus.

Father Mark Elliot Smith

The Rector

Fr Elliott Smith is the Rector (Parish Priest) of Our Lady of the Assumption & St Gregory, Warwick Street. Before his ordination to the Catholic priesthood in 2011, Fr Mark served as an Anglican clergyman in Tottenham. He has been pastor of the London (Central) Ordinariate Group since 2011.

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