Traditionalist order of priests to take over running a church in England

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They will be in Ss Peter and Paul, New Brighton, Wirral, England. This church had a controversial closing a few years ago.
[Bishop Davies] re-opened the Dome of Home, as the Wirral Church is known, earlier this year after his predecessor closed it in 2008 as being too large and too costly to maintain.
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After a concerted campaign by parishioners, the Vatican ruled in 2009 that the then Bishop Brian Noble had failed to follow the correct canonical procedure when closing the church. It later withdrew the ruling when it was assured that the parish’s move to a nearby Anglican parish was temporary.
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A diocesan spokesman said: “The members of the institute will work in close collaboration with Fr Philip Moor, the parish priest of the Parish of the Holy Apostles and Martyrs, since it is the wish of Bishop Davies that this shrine church will express the harmony between the two usages of the one Roman Rite.
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catholicherald.co.uk/news/2011/05/27/institute-of-christ-the-king-to-take-over-landmark-wirral-church/
(this is the same link as in the first post)

The day chapel reopened earlier this year for weekly Mass, however the fate fo the main church building was uncertain until this announcement. Discussions are still being held as to whether Mass will be offered in English, as well as in Latin.
wirralglobe.co.uk/news/9053543.Landmark_Wirral_church_will_re_open/
 
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