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Education

==Education== Hollis was educated at Stonyhurst College, where his father had once taught. He did national service in the Somerset Light Infantry, serving in the United Kingdom and Malaya. In 1956 he went to Balliol College, Oxford to study modern history and graduated in 1959. In that year he went to Rome to start studying for the priesthood at the Pontifical Gregorian University as a member of the Venerable English College. He obtained the Licence in Sacred Theology in 1966.

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Family life

Having worked as a lecturer of Church History at the United Theological College, Bangalore, 1955–1960, Bishop Arthur Michael Hollis, served in his last years as Rector of Todwick and an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Sheffield. Hollis, however, was the son of Arthur Hollis's brother, Christopher Hollis, an Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford educated writer, wartime Royal Air Force intelligence officer and later Tory Member of Parliament for Devizes. Christopher Hollis was a friend of Ronald Knox and Evelyn Waugh and in 1924 became a Roman Catholic, as Knox had already done and as Waugh did later. Not only that, but Hollis's uncle, after whom he was named, was Sir Roger Henry Hollis, another son of Bishop George Hollis and younger brother to Hollis’s father. Roger Hollis, described by Evelyn Waugh as "a good bottle man",^{[citation needed]} abandoned studies at Worcester College, Oxford for a wandering life which led him, Christopher Hollis, into the intelligence world. Roger Hollis joined MI5 (the Security Service) shortly before World War II and, in 1956, became its Director General, exciting suspicions of his being a Soviet agent and mole, codenamed “Elli”, though various investigations, including the lengthy Trend Committee of the 1970s under Lord Trend, decided the allegations inconclusive, neither denying nor confirming them. Hollis’s younger cousin, Adrian Hollis, son of Roger Hollis, was a Grandmaster of correspondence chess and British Correspondence Chess Champion in 1966, 1967 and 1971.

Ministry

Educated at Stonyhurst and Balliol, he graduated from Oxford in 1959 to start studying for the priesthood at the Pontifical Gregorian University while living at the Venerable English College.

Hollis was ordained a priest on 11 July 1965, about the same time that his uncle, Sir Roger Hollis, took early retirement.

After one year as a curate at Christ the King, Amesbury, Wiltshire, Hollis was posted to the Old Palace, which housed the Catholic chaplaincy in the University of Oxford. There he worked from 1967 to 1977, first as assistant to Father Michael Hollings, then as chaplain. In 1977 he was appointed Catholic Assistant to the Head of Religious Broadcasting at the BBC, a responsibility that ensured him a lifetime of contacts with the media.

In 1981 he was appointed Administrator of Clifton Cathedral in Bristol and Vicar General of the Diocese of Clifton, with special responsibility for ecumenical affairs. While still in this post, he was appointed a member of the IBA's panel of religious advisers and in 1986 became a member of the Central Religious Advisory Committee (CRAC) for the BBC and the IBA.

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