[Bell Historians] Stanbrook Abbey

[David Bryant]

>Not quite true. The RC church does have a similar system to the CofE, but 
>it
>is much more informal and frequently overlooked/flauted. A priest of the
>diocese is normally the chair of the committee that recommends these 
>things.
>Fr David Gibbons (a ringer) is responsible for such matters in the 
>Southwark
>(RC) Diocese and he often visits churches remarking "I didn't give you
>permission to do that" - not that he ever gets wound up by it. So it is all
>a question of enforcement.

When the ring of ten at St Wilfrid's in York (RC) was put in, I believe that 
the diocese (Middlesbrough) was asked and the bishop simply said to go 
ahead.

David