HUNDREDS of people attended the most historic service ever to take place at St Peter's RC Cathedral on Monday.
Fr Michael Campbell became the first Augustinian bishop in England since the Reformation to be ordained bishop and the first bishop to be ordained at the cathedral for 46 years.
Watch the slideshow here...Bishop Campbell will become the RC Bishop of Lancaster in the summer of 2009 on the retirement of Bishop Patrick O'Donoghue.
Two cardinals, 32 bishops, 200 priests and deacons gathered with hundreds of guests from parishes throughout the diocese and beyond to participate in this historic event.
Archbishop Faustino Sainz Munoz, the Papal Ambassador to the Court of St James, spoke directly to Bishop Campbell saying that his appointment to Lancaster was a 'home-coming.'
"You were ordained priest here, you taught here, and you have many friends here."
In his homily, Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor, the leader of the English Catholic Church, said Bishop Campbell's ordination left him with mixed feelings: "Joy at Bishop Campbell's ordination but sorrow at losing him as a priest in the Diocese of Westminster."
Bishop Campbell has worked in Westminster Diocese for the last ten years.
After the Ordination Mass, 450 people attended a reception at Lancaster Grand Theatre
