Diaconate ordinations at Farm Street
Source: Jesuits in Britain
Two Jesuit scholastics were ordained to the diaconate on Saturday, 10th February by Bishop John Sherrington at Farm Street Church.
Anuranjan Ekka from the Darjeeling Province, currently living in the Loyola House community in Wimbledon, and George Stephen Thayriam from Madurai, a member of the Hurtado Jesuit community in Wapping, are both third year undergraduates studying for their Bachelor of Divinity at Heythrop College.
The principal concelebrants were Fr Nick King SJ, Assistant for Formation, and Fr Damian Howard SJ, Provincial of the Jesuits in Britain, who presented the candidates to the Bishop.
Jesuits are ordained to the diaconate during the final year of their Theology studies. With so many Jesuits studying outside their home province, diaconate ordinations are often international affairs. Heythrop College has been one of the main English-speaking formation centres. With Heythrop due to close in 2019, George and Anuranjan will be the last two overseas scholastics to be ordained in Britain.
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