Anthony Fisher, the archbishop of Sydney, says his predecessor would return to Australia if asked, adding that Pell has conceded errors were made in the handling of child abuse cases and has apologised previously.
But as the months go by it will become increasingly difficult for Boris to blame his problems on his predecessor, and the old media should increasingly join the new in closely scrutinising his term.
Pitt will doubtless meet his predecessor because Crowley has been appointed chairman of the industry's trade body, the National Newspapers of Ireland.
"As well as having fewer resources at its disposal than its predecessor, the legacy investigations branch cannot itself satisfy [human rights] requirements … because of its lack of independence from the police service.
And after Thatcher's memorable fall in November 1990, her predecessor wore Westminster's widest, toothiest smile and borrowed one of her own phrases: "Rejoice, rejoice".
Nevertheless, as the Treasury Secretary reminded his rather complacent audience: 'The laws of economics have not been repealed, much less those of human psychology.' Between the lines of recent remarks by Summers and his predecessor, Robert Rubin, one detects serious concern about the US stock market, the ballooning US trade deficit and the dependence of the US economy on 'other people's money'.
And certainly not when it is compared to the years that Tsiskaridze's predecessor, Vera Dorofeeva, has spent modernising and expanding the Vaganova's curriculum and forging links with other schools around the world.
The Day of the Horse holiday was started by Berdymukhamedov's late predecessor, Saparmurat Niyazov, an eccentric dictator who renamed the months after members of his family and erected a golden statue of himself that revolved to reflect the sun.
Francis also paid tribute to his predecessor, the emeritus pope, Benedict XVI.
The education secretary and minister for women and equalities won her Loughborough seat with a majority of 3,744 over her Labour predecessor.
The new head of the Catholic church in Ireland paid tribute to his predecessor.
