John Arnold

Who is John Arnold?

John Stanley Kenneth Arnold is an auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster. In addition to this, he holds the titular see of Lindisfarne.

Arnold was born in Sheffield and attended Mylnhurst Convent School before attending Grace Dieu Manor School and Ratcliffe College, both schools run by the Institute of Charity. In 1975 he graduated with a law degree from Trinity College, Oxford and completed his legal qualification by being called to the Bar in the Middle Temple in 1976 after studies at the Council of Legal Education.

Arnold left the field of law and entered a seminary to undertake the studies for receiving Holy Orders in the Catholic Church. He was ordained on 16 July 1983 by Cardinal Basil Hume OSB, the Archbishop of Westminster. In recognition of this work as a priest, he was named a Chaplain of His Holiness. In December 2006 he was named as an auxiliary bishop for Westminster, for which office he was consecrated a bishop by the subsequent Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor.

Arnold has responsibility for the pastoral care of the deaneries of Barnet, Brent, Enfield, Haringey and Harrow.