Anglican bishop's wife in shock conversion to Rome
Tuesday October 16 2007

The wife of a Church of Ireland bishop has converted to Catholicism in a move unprecedented in modern Irish church history.

The close-knit Anglican community in the west has been stunned by the shock conversion of the wife of Richard Henderson, Bishop of the United Diocese of Tuam, Killala and Achonry.

African-born Anita Henderson -- who is also the daughter of a Church of Ireland clergyman in Cork -- was received into the Catholic Church at a Sunday evening prayer service in the private chapel of the Catholic Bishop of Killala, John Fleming.

Mrs Henderson's devoted husband, their two teenage daughters and their schoolboy son attended the service in Bishop Fleming's palace overlooking the River Moy in the market town of Ballina. the rest