Bishop Athanasius Schneider O.R.C. will visit all three North Western centres for the Traditional Mass next month.
The itinerary for the visit is:
- Friday 26th February – He will visit St Walburge’s, Preston.
- Saturday 27th February – He will visit Ss Peter & Paul and St Philomena, New Brighton (see below)
- Sunday 28th February – He will celebrate Pontifical Low Mass with music at 11am and then after refreshments at 12.15pm, give a spiritual talk at 1pm at St Mary’s in Warrington, the new home of the FSSP.
Bishop Schneider was born in Tokmok, Kirghiz SSR in the Soviet Union. His parents were ethnic Germans from Ukraine who were sent by Stalin to gulags in the Ural Mountains after the Second World War. They traveled to the Kirghiz SSR after being released from the camps.
In 1973, shortly after making his first Holy Communion by the hand of Bl. Oleksa Zaryckyj, priest and martyr, he left with his family for Germany. He joined the Canons Regular of the Holy Cross of Coimbra, a Catholic religious order, and was ordained a priest in 1990, earning a doctorate in Patristics, a topic he taught at Mary Mother of the Church Seminary in Karaganda.
On 2 June 2006 he was consecrated Bishop at the Altar of the Chair of Saint Peter in the Vatican by Angelo Cardinal Sodano. In 2011 he was made auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Astana.
He has written two short books, Dominus Est (It is the Lord) and Corpus Christi.
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