Derek Worlock

Derek Worlock
The Most Reverend 
Derek Worlock,
 CH
Archbishop of Liverpool
Church Roman Catholic Church
Archdiocese Archdiocese of Liverpool
Province Province of Liverpool
Appointed 7 February 1976
Reign ended 6 February 1996
Predecessor George Andrew Beck
Successor Patrick Altham Kelly
Orders
Ordination 3 June 1944
Consecration 21 December 1965
by John Carmel Heenan
Personal details
Birth name Derek John Harford Worlock
Born 4 February 1920
London
Died 6 February 1996
Liverpool
Buried Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool
Nationality British
Denomination Roman Catholic
Parents Captain Harford Worlock and Dora Worlock (née Hoblyn).
Previous post Bishop of Portsmouth
Motto Caritas Christi eluceat [1]

Derek John Harford Worlock, CH (4 February 1920 — 6 February 1996) was an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church; his highest posting as the Archbishop of Liverpool.[2]

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Life

Derek Worlock was born in London on 4 February 1920,[2] the son of Captain Harford Worlock and Dora Worlock (née Hoblyn).[3][4] His father, a journalist turned Conservative political agent, had the same ambition at Keble College, Oxford, and 12 of his ancestors had been Anglican clergymen. But Harford Worlock became a Roman Catholic, along with his bride, Dora, a suffragette who preferred to call herself a suffragist.[5]

Derek Worlock was a student at St Edmund's College from 1934-44. By this time the family home was in Winchester. As a small boy he was rebuked for "having an answer to everything", a trait that remained. He was ordained to the priesthood at Westminster Cathedral on 3 June 1944,[2] seminarians being exempt from military service so they could be rushed through to serve as chaplains. In theory he belonged to the Diocese of Portsmouth, but its bishop, Dr Cotter, expected his future priests to have an Irish background. Not long afterwards, he was appointed private secretary to Cardinal Griffin, and assisted successive cardinal-archbishops of Westminster for almost two decades. He attended every session of the Second Vatican Council between 1962 and 1965.[2]

Worlock was appointed Bishop of Portsmouth on 18 October 1965, and consecrated at the Cathedral of St John the Evangelist, Portsmouth on 21 December 1965.[2] While in Portsmouth he set about renewing parishes, as well as undertaking the work of developing ecumenical relationships and the building of over thirty new churches in his Diocese.[2]

In 1976, he was appointed Archbishop of Liverpool.[2] He was one of the panelists for the first edition of the BBC programme Question Time in 1979. The following year, he convoked at Liverpool the National Pastoral Congress which gave rise to the report The Easter People. Important events in his Cathedral included the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1982, and the 1990 launch of the Council of Churches of Britain and Ireland. Archbishop Worlock contributed to the work of reconciliation after the Toxteth riots in 1981, and in the aftermath of the football stadium tragedies at Heysel in 1985 and Hillsborough in 1989.[2]

Archbishop Worlock was committed to evangelisation, and collaborated with his fellow Church leaders, as demonstrated by the books Better Together and With Hope in our Hearts which he and his Anglican counterpart Bishop David Sheppard jointly produced. Sheppard's daughter, Jenny, changed her jurisdictional affiliation from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism. In July 1992, Worlock underwent major surgery for lung cancer but survived long enough to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood two years later.[6]

Legacy

In January 1994, along with David Sheppard, he was awarded the Freedom of the City of Liverpool. He was made Companion of Honour in the 1996 New Year's Honours List, but died of cancer two days after his 76th birthday, just a week before he was due to receive the honour.[7]

On Sunday, 11 May 2008, during the Christian Walk of Witness, The Sheppard-Worlock Statue in the form of two Bronze Doors was unveiled to honour both Archbishop Worlock and Bishop David Sheppard. The memorial was designed by acclaimed sculptor Stephen Broadbent and was funded by public donations. The Memorial is situated half way down Liverpool's famous Hope Street, which joins both the Roman Catholic and Anglican Cathedrals.[8]

References

Source

  • Kay, David J. S. (2003). The People of St Edmund's College (The Edmundian Association). ISBN 0-9546125-0-7

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Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
John Henry King
Bishop of Portsmouth
1965–1976
Succeeded by
Anthony Joseph Emery
Preceded by
George Andrew Beck
Archbishop of Liverpool
1976–1996
Succeeded by
Patrick Altham Kelly

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