Archbishop Vincent Nichols:  studied for the priesthood at the Venerable English College in Rome from 1963 to 1970, gaining licences in philosophy and theology at the Gregorian University.  Ordained priest in Rome on 21 December 1969 for the Archdiocese of Liverpool, he served as General Secretary of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales from 1984 to 1993. In addition to his role within the CBCEW, he was moderator of the Steering Committee of the Council of Churches for Britain and Ireland and chair of the Catholic Education Service. In November 1991, he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster and Titular Bishop of Othona by Pope John Paul II. He was ordained Bishop by Cardinal Hume at Westminster Cathedral on 24 January 1992,  taking up particualr responsibility for the North of the Diocese. He became the Archibishop of Birmingham in 2000, and Archbishop of Westminster on May 21st 2009.

John Gibbs:  after qualifying as a Chartered Accountant he then spent twenty years helping to build a group of companies in the professional training and publishing fields into a quoted plc.  After this was acquired by a Dutch group in 1986, he was invited to become the Financial Secretary of the Archdiocese of Westminster, a position he held for nearly twenty one years.  He is currently a trustee of a number of Catholic charities including Westminster Cathedral Choir School and Westminster Catholic Children’s Society, and is Chairman of KLC Ltd, a school of interior and garden design.

Bishop John Arnold:  was ordained Bishop and appointed as an Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Westminster on 3rd February 2006.  He is assigned the titular see of Lindisfarne and has responsibility for the pastoral care of the deaneries of Barnet, Brent, Enfield, Haringey and Harrow.  In 1975 he graduated with a Law Degree from Trinity College, Oxford and completed his legal qualification by being called to the Bar in the Middle Temple in 1976 after studies at the Council of Legal Education.  In the autumn of the same year, he entered the novitiate of the Institute of Charity (Rosminians), taking simple vows in 1978 before beginning studies at the Gregorian University in Rome.  In 1981 he transferred to the Venerable English College and continued his studies for the Diocese of Westminster, completing both a Licence and a doctorate in Canon Law.  He was ordained by Cardinal Basil Hume as a deacon in November 1982 and a priest in July 1983.  With the completion of studies in Rome, he was appointed to Westminster Cathedral as a chaplain, with responsibilities for the Westminster Hospital in 1985.  In 2001 he was appointed Chancellor and Vicar General by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor.  In 2003 he was made a Chaplain to the Papal Household.

Mark Brenninkmeyer:  gained a BA at the City University and, later, an MBA from Babson College, Boston, USA.  He was Chairman of Matlock Bank in London from 2001-2006.  From 1994 to 2000 he was chairman of C&A UK.  He has worked both in America and the UK, having been Group Executive with Amcena (Retail) and President of Maurices (Retail) in the USA.  He is presently chairman of Porticus UK, a private charity. He is a board member of St Joseph's Pastoral Centre, and is a member of the Pastoral Board for the Diocese of Westminster.  He is a trustee of the Victoire Laminiere Foundation.

Nicholas Coulson: graduated from Oxford University with a first-class degree in Modern History in 1975 and pursued an academic career before going to work in the City.  He spent 28 years in finance, most of them in Continental European markets, where he was responsible for leading investment banking relationships with a number of major European corporations such as Eon and Deutsche Telekom.  He spent the last thirteen years of his banking career at N M Rothschild, where he was the partner successively responsible for the group’s business in Germany, Russia and the CIS.  He retired in October 2007, returned briefly to academe (SOAS) and is now developing a number of business and cultural interests in and around China, many of them focussed on the art market.  Nicholas Coulson is a Trustee of the Lakeland Arts Trust, a Governor of Downside School and a Trustee of the Hospital of SS John and Elizabeth in London.

Jocelyn Ridley: is Managing Director of JMRC Ltd and is a recruitment professional with twenty years experience of search and selection in the private, public and voluntary sectors. JMRC Ltd was established in 2002 as a specialist recruitment consultancy in the not-for-profit sector working at Board and senior management level.  As well as running JMRC Ltd, Jocelyn is an Independent Public Appointments Assessor for the Commissioner for Public Appointments and for the Appointments Commission, acting as the independent member of panels recruiting Board members to public appointments.  Jocelyn has a degree in Psychology and before becoming a headhunter, she worked in publishing and bookselling for many years and was based in South America, Paris and London.  Her last corporate position was Sales & Marketing Director for a book distribution company with responsibility for the UK and Europe.  She is a management committee member for London Cyrenians, a charity providing care for vulnerable people including those with mental illness, young people, asylum seekers and homeless mothers and babies, and a member of the Cardinal Hume Centre. 

Canon Christopher Tuckwell:  was received into the Catholic Church in 1994 and ordained priest by Cardinal Hume in 1995.  He was assistant priest at Five Precious Wounds, Stonebridge Park, from 1995 to1996; Parish priest at Our Lady Queen of All Creation, Hemel Hempstead from 1996 to 2000; Parish priest at St Scholastica, Clapton from 2001 to 2006.  He is a part time Chaplain at HMP The Mount and HMP Pentonville.  Canon Tuckwell was appointed Sub Administrator at Westminster Cathedral in 2006 and Administrator from 2008 to the present.  Educated at Arden House, Warwickshire and Malvern College, Worcestershire, he entered the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst in 1964, and was commissioned into The Queen’s Royal Surrey Regiment and served in Germany, Southern Arabia and East Africa.   He left the army in 1970 and entered Chichester Theological College to train for the ordained ministry of the Church of England.  He was ordained deacon in 1973 and priest, at St Paul’s Cathedral, in 1974.

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