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The Rt Rev. John Sherrington

MA(Cantab) STL

Episcopal Governor (England and Wales)

Bishop John Sherrington is an Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Westminster and Titular Bishop of Hilta. Within the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, he is a member of the Department for Social Justice with responsibility for life issues. He is also Chair of the Governing Body of Mater Ecclesiae College, Co-Chair of the Methodist-Roman Catholic International Commission, and a Trustee of (respectively) the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth in London, the Pontifical Beda College in Rome, and All Hallows College in Dublin.

Previously, he graduated with a BA in Mathematics from Queens’ College, Cambridge and later completed an STL in Moral Theology at the Gregorian University, Rome, before going on to lecture in moral theology at All Hallows College, Dublin and St John’s Seminary, Wonersh, where he was also a member of the formation staff.

Sincerest Thanks for Your Support

Staff are grateful to all those who sustained the Centre in the past by their prayers and the generous financial support from trusts, organisations, communities and especially from individual donors, including the core funding that came through the Day for Life fund and so from the generosity of many thousands of parishioners. We would finally like to acknowledge the support the Centre has received from the Catholic community in Ireland, especially during the pandemic when second collections were not possible.

We would like to emphasise that, though the Centre is now closed, these donations have not been wasted but have helped educate and support generations of conscientious healthcare professionals, clerics, and lay people over almost 50 years. This support has also helped prevent repeated attempts to legalise euthanasia or assisted suicide in Britain and Ireland from 1993 till the end of the Centre’s work on 31 July 2025.