Current Bishop
The current bishop is The Right Reverend Declan Ronan Lang who was born on 15 April 1950 in Cowes, Isle of Wight. From 1975 he was a priest in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth, serving as Vicar General from 1996. He was appointed Bishop of Clifton in March 2001.
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