Join the Canonically Speaking host Fr Paul Hayward as he speaks with Mgr Gordon Read.

Mgr Read was ordained for the diocese of Brentwood on 31 July 1976, and studied canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where he obtained a JCL in 1979. He is currently parish priest of St Mary Immaculate & The Holy Archangels, Kelvedon, and has served as Judicial Vicar and Chancellor of the Diocese of Brentwood since July 1985.

He has produced well over 80 articles and commentaries on canon law matters, most of them for the Newsletter of the Canon Law Society of Great Britain and Ireland, of which he was President between 2013 and 2016, and of which he is a current Trustee. He has been given Life Membership of the Society in recognition of his services.

Host - Fr Paul Hayward

Music - Solfeggietto in C minor - C.P.E. Bach played by Imma Setiadi [https://www.immasetiadi.com]

Artwork - the opening page of Gratian’s Decretum or Concordia discordantium canonum.For questions, comments and suggestions, feel free to contact the show:

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