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First Coronation role in 500 years for Catholic bishops

Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Archbishop Miguel Maury Buendía will represent Pope Francis in Westminster Abbey. Cardinal Vincent Nichols is to become the first Catholic bishop to play a formal role in the Coronation of a British monarch since the Reformation, when he blesses King Charles III during the ceremony in Westminster Abbey on 6 May. It will be witnessed by a papal delegation led by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See Secretary of State, the first papal representative to participate in a British Coronation for almost 500 years.