(ANS - Rome) - With the consent of the General Council, the Rector Major, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, has decided to confirm Fr James Briody as Provincial Superior of the "St Thomas of Canterbury" Province of Great Britain (GBR) for the 2022-2028 term.

Fr James Briody was born in Motherwell, in the county of Lanarkshire, on 7 May 1964. He entered the Salesian novitiate in Dublin on 7 September 1983 and made his perpetual profession in September 1991 in Glasgow, Scotland. He was ordained a deacon in Battersea, London, on July 17, 1994, while the priestly ordination took place a year later, on 22 July 1995, in Motherwell, his hometown.

Over the years, he has held various positions, including Councilor first in the Salesian House of Farnborough (2002-2005) and then in the Salesian House in Bootle (2005-2015). He was also School Principal, in Bootle, from 1 September 2005 to 1 September 2015.

On 14 August 2016 the Rector Major, with the consent of his Council, appointed him Provincial of Great Britain, a position to which he has just been re-appointed for the next six years.