Bishop Nicholas Hudson was ordained Auxiliary Bishop for the Diocese of Westminster on 4 June 2014. He is Titular Bishop of St Germans.
Bishop Nicholas has responsibility for the pastoral care of Central and East London, consisting of the Deaneries of Camden, Hackney, Islington, Marylebone, Tower Hamlets and Westminster. He also has oversight of the Agency for Evangelisation, Youth, and Justice and Peace.
Within the Bishops' Conference, Bishop Nicholas is a member of the Department for International Affairs, a member of the Holy Land Coordination and an observer to the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE).
He completed six years’ study of philosophy and theology at the Venerable English College, Rome, with a Licence in Fundamental Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University. Bishop Nicholas was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Southwark in 1986 by Archbishop Michael Bowen in the Church of the Sacred Heart, Wimbledon. He served as assistant priest in St Thomas of Canterbury in Canterbury for his first appointment.
Following further studies at the Catholic University of Leuven in Religious Education, Catechesis and Evangelization, he was appointed Director of the Southwark Christian Education Centre in 1992.
In 2000 he was appointed Vice-Rector and in 2004 Rector of the Venerable English College, Rome, where he served until 2013.
Immediately prior to his ordination as Bishop, he was parish priest of Sacred Heart in Wimbledon, the parish where he was baptised and later ordained.
Born Hammersmith, 14 February 1959, fourth son of Richard and Marie-Charlotte (née Valdelièvre) Hudson
1966-72 Wimbledon College Preparatory School
1972-77 Wimbledon College
1978-81 Jesus College, Cambridge - Bachelor of Arts
1981-87 Venerable English College, Rome - Licence in Fundamental Theology
1987-91 Assistant Priest in the Parish of St Thomas of Canterbury, Canterbury
1991-92 Catholic University of Leuven - Studies in Religious Education and Catechesis
1992-2000 Director of the Southwark Christian Education Centre
2000-04 Vice-Rector of the Venerable English College, Rome
2004-13 Rector of the Venerable English College, Rome
2014 Parish Priest of the Parish of the Sacred Heart, Wimbledon