One-third of Catholic clergy in the United Kingdom are Anglican converts: the surprising revelations of an investigation - ZENIT

One-third of Catholic clergy in the United Kingdom are Anglican converts: the surprising revelations of an investigation - ZENIT

(ZENIT News / Rome, 11.23.2025).- For more than thirty years, a steady, largely unnoticed current has been flowing beneath the surface of British Christianity. It has not made the headlines that doctrinal disputes once did, nor has it provoked the drama that ecclesial controversies often attract. Yet its cumulative effect is significant: since 1992, former Anglican clergy have represented  a third of all those who entered Catholic priestly minis…