Mark Langham

Monsignor Langham pouring prosecco on the Fisher House terrace.

Fr Mark Langham STD is the Catholic chaplain at the University of Cambridge.

Biography

Mark Langham studied Classics at Magdalene College, Cambridge from 1979 to 1983. He was ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in 1990.

Langham was Administrator of Westminster Cathedral until 2008, at which point he was appointed to the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. He was influential in relations between the Catholic and Anglican Churches during the consolidation of plans to create the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

Since 2013, he has been chaplain at Fisher House, the University of Cambridge's chaplaincy for catholic students. In a 2012 Tablet article listing candidates for the episcopacy, he was described as a "clear preacher with a good sense of humour".

Langham is a prolific writer and has contributed to The Tablet, amongst other publications. In 2014, he wrote an article entitled, "God knows where the women bishops vote leaves Anglican-Catholic relations".

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