‘We’re in a kind of new apostolic era’: An interview with Wales’ Catholic archbishop

“Catholicism is very much in the landscape.”

Bishop Mark O’Toole received a daunting new mission from Pope Francis in April. The bishop, who had led the southern English Diocese of Plymouth since 2014, was given not one but two new dioceses  — in a different country.

The pope asked him to oversee the Archdiocese of Cardiff and the Diocese of Menevia in Wales. The dioceses would not be merged but un…