13 Facts About Crispian Hollis

Crispian Hollis' parents were Christopher Hollis, the author and parliamentarian, and Madeleine Hollis.

Crispian Hollis is possibly unique among Catholic bishops in being the grandson of an Anglican bishop, the Right Revd George Arthur Hollis, vice-principal of Wells Theological College and later suffragan Bishop of Taunton, and the nephew of another, the Right Revd Arthur Michael Hollis, Bishop of Madras.

Crispian Hollis completed his national service as a 2nd Lt.

Crispian Hollis then went to the Venerable English College in Rome, where he was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Clifton on 11 July 1965, and subsequently received a Licentiate of Sacred Theology.

In February 1987, Crispian Hollis was appointed by the Holy See as an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Birmingham.

Crispian Hollis was assigned by the then Archbishop Maurice Noel Leon Couve de Murville special responsibility for the Oxfordshire area.

Crispian Hollis served for a time as a member of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications of the Roman Curia, He was Chairman of the Catholic Media Trust and chaired the Bishops' Committee for Europe.

Crispian Hollis was Chairman of the Bishops' Conference Department of Mission and Unity, Representative for the Bishops' Conference of the Churches Together in Britain and Ireland and a Member of IARCCUM.

Crispian Hollis is said to enjoy cricket and golf and, in the family tradition, to take a keen interest in current affairs.

In 2011, aged 75, Crispian Hollis announced that in accordance with canon law he had tendered his resignation as Bishop of Portsmouth.

Egan was consecrated as the Eighth Bishop of Portsmouth, with Bishop Crispian Hollis serving as Principal Consecrator, on 24 September 2012, the Feast of Our Lady of Walsingham.

Crispian Hollis actively encourages people to travel to Lourdes, to which he has a great attachment, first going there in 1967 as a chaplain with the Oxford University Pilgrimage and then going annually with them until 1981.

Crispian Hollis was the Patron of the Catholic Association Hospitalite until 2011.