He had grown up in the Manchester, UK area and initially served as a curate in the Church of England prior to emigrating to Western Canada, for reasons that aren't clear. In 2017, under circumstances that have never been clear but must be confidential, he was returned "on loan" to the Diocese of Shrewsbury in the UK, for a period of five years, based on what was announced at the time.
However, his initial assignment there, to the parish of Our Lady and St John in Stockport, ended when he was removed after less than a month, amid controversy. His subsequent assignments in the diocese appear to have been minimal. He returned to Canada in 2019, after only two years of his five-year loan.
He was assigned by Bp Lopes as parish administrator to the St John Henry Newman group in Victoria, BC. My regular correspondent has expressed concern that although each Canadian parish is expected to contribute $5000 to its pastor's retirement account, small ones like the one in Victoria will never be able to pay this much. My correspondent continues,
Just wondering how Fr Kenyon can survive financially with six young children, one less than a year old, a wife presumably not in the paid workforce, at least at the moment, and no permanent local diocesan assignment that I can find. The St John Henry Newman community is small and shows no sign of growth. It can certainly not supply housing or anything close to a full stipend.The story at the link is especially interesting, because it covers Fr Dean Henderson, now a pastor of a diocesan parish on Vancouver Island, who had been a married priest in the Anglican Church of Canada but pursued ordination as a married Catholic priest via a separate bureaucratic path that was available outside the Pastoral Provision or Anglicanorum coetibus. (Fr Dwight Longenecker also was ordained a married Catholic priest outside those routes.)The Diocese of Victoria has a serious priest shortage, so I am sure there are supply opportunities, but I do not know whether these offer benefits or pension plan membership.
By the way, I see that the Diocese of Victoria has four other married priests.
So we must at minimum assume that a potentially wider role would be available to Fr Kenyon in the Diocese of Victoria, since he's already been ordained, and Bp Lopes has seen no obstacles to ordinariate priests serving as diocesan pastors and administrators where this is a good fit. Indeed, with a shortage of priests in Victoria, one would expect the bishop there to be anxious for Fr Kenyon's help.
As far as my regular correspondent can tell, though, Fr Kenyon's role has so far been limited to supply priest, filling in on Sundays for parishes where this is needed. Under the current COVID hysteria, parishes in Victoria had been offering only on line masses and are now only gradually reopening to in-person services, which continues to limit the possibility of work for supply priests.
So I can only conclude that the circumstances for Fr Kenyon and his family are difficult.
UPDATE: My regular correspondent comments,
I have been going through the Diocese of Victoria parish by parish just to confirm that he is not regularly assisting somewhere. This review has strengthened the impression I have gained that the diocese is seriously under-supplied with priests (for example, a number of churches offer Sunday Worship led by laypeople/nuns, followed by Holy Communion) so his lack of a diocesan appointment is more puzzling, especially given that the SJHN mass time is 2 pm, except on third Sundays, when it is 3 pm.Apropos of your interest in church closings, I can report that some in the diocese have not reopened, and about half a dozen announced on their websites that mass registration for this Sunday was closed as all spots were filled. All nine mass times at the cathedral this Sat/Sun are (already) full, for example.
