One of the boys

Habemus episcopum! That was the shout of joy going up in the hearts of a congregation of over 500 in the Cathedral Church of St Mary and St Boniface in Plymouth last Saturday. After more than three shepherdless years, the vast Diocese of Plymouth – com prising the whole of Dorset, Devon and Cornwall, with 57 parishes and 37 schools – was celebrating the installation of Nicholas Hudson as its bishop. Heavy rain had been forecast but, perhaps a seal of divine approval, the sun poured in, filling the nave with sea light and, as if in a poem by George Mackay Brown, the church was “Freighted for heaven, galeblown with psalm and prayer”.

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