His Holiness Pope Leo XIV formally declared the Ordinariate’s patron, S John Henry Newman, a Doctor of the Church at Mass on All Saints’ Day, 1 November 2025.

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Video of Pope Leo’s homily, from the Catholic News Service via YouTube

Nos, vota plurimorum Fratrum in Episcopatu
multorumque christifidelium totius orbis explentes,
de Dicasterii de Causis Sanctorum consulto,
certa scientia ac matura deliberatione
deque apostolicæ potestatis plenitudine
Sanctum Ioannem Henricum Newman
Ecclesiæ Universalis Doctorem declaramus.
In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti.

We, having obtained the opinions of numerous Brothers in the Episcopate
and of many of Christ’s faithful throughout the world,
having consulted the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints,
after mature deliberation and with certain knowledge,
and by the fullness of the apostolic power,
declare Saint John Henry Newman
Doctor of the Universal Church.
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

During his homily at the Mass in S Peter’s Square, Pope Leo also established S John Henry Newman as co-Patron Saint for the Church’s mission in education, alongside S Thomas Aquinas.

We have another post with more about St John Henry Newman.

The image used as a link to this page is a detail from a portrait of Cardinal Newman by Walter William Ouless (1848–1933) owned by Oriel College, Oxford.