For Easter 2026, the archdiocese expects an even more staggering increase: 8,598 catechumens and candidates. Photo: Peter Lobato

Former Director of Oxford Seminary Converts to Catholicism

Although Robin Ward was educated in what he described as a «Low Church» form of Anglicanism, characterized by the use of the Book of Common Prayer, austere liturgy, and a Protestant approach to the sacraments, his experience at Oxford and his encounter with the Anglo-Catholic tradition sparked in him a deeper search for the identity of the Church.