The Redemptoris Mater House of Formation in London does not refer to a building but rather to a particular diocesan institution. It is a fruit of the Neocatechumenal Way in the service of forming men to become diocesan and missionary priests for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster to serve the New Evangelization.[1] It is part of the wider network of the Redemptoris Mater seminaries and the Neocatechumenal Way.
The Redemptoris Mater House of Formation in the Archdiocese of Westminster was established in 1991[2] by Cardinal Basil Hume and was officially established within the structure of the Diocesan Seminary, Allen Hall Seminary on 13 December 2013 with the public signing of its statute by the Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols.[3]
The House of Formation is dependent on the Allen Hall seminary for academic and formal priestly training[4] and upon the Neocatechumenal Way for spiritual and faith formation.
The first ordination from the House of Formation was to the deaconate (deacon) by Cardinal Basil Hume in November 1998 and later to the priesthood in July 1999 by Bishop Patrick O'Donoghue. As of 2021, 21 priests from the Redemptoris Mater House of Formation had been ordained for the Archdiocese of Westminster.
- ^ "The New Evangelization". Archived from the original on 19 October 2000.
- ^ "Allen Hall".
- ^ "New House of Formation established within Diocesan Seminary Allen Hall".
- ^ "Allen Hall".