Leo XIV appoints another
Bishop for England. He defended a homosexual Eucharist.Today, Pope Leo XIV appointed Bishop Timothy Menezes, 56, as the Bishop of Brentwood, succeeding Bishop Alan Williams, 75.
Menezes has served as Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham since his episcopal consecration in July 2024. As such, he defended the periodic homosexual Eucharists at St Patrick's parish in Coventry. The homosexual group there emerged from the Synodal process.
Menezes wrote a June 1, 2025 statement about the "LGBTQ+ Vigil Welcome Mass" on May 10, 2025 : “In my conversations with some members of the group, they find attending Mass in a parish difficult against the backdrop of what they sometimes see to be a Church that does not accept them. This means that they find a Mass at which they know that they are accepted, which is a first step to hopefully full integration in our parish communities.”
Notably, Bishop Menezes commented in support of the homosex Eucharist although Coventry was not within his assigned pastoral area. Responsibility for Coventry, Warwickshire and Oxfordshire had belonged to the other auxiliary bishop, Richard Walker. Menezes was responsible for North Staffordshire, Stafford, Lichfield, Walsall, Dudley and Wolverhampton
From 2000 to 2004, Menezes served as personal secretary to the pro-homosexual Cardinal Vincent Nichols, 80, then Archbishop of Birmingham.
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