Education
Hollis was educated at Stonyhurst College, where his father had once taught. He did national service in the Somerset Light Infantry, serving in the United Kingdom and Malaya. In 1956 he went to Balliol College, Oxford to study modern history and graduated in 1959. In that year he went to Rome to start studying for the priesthood at the Pontifical Gregorian University as a member of the Venerable English College. He obtained the Licence in Sacred Theology in 1966.
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