The church at Barlow Moor in the parish of his birthplace, founded in 1932, is dedicated to St Ambrose of Milan but changed to St Ambrose Barlow at his canonisation.
On October 3, 2000, Xinhua News Agency reacted to the canonisation by issuing a press release, painting a very negative portrait of Father Chapdelaine.
He has expressed opposition about any imminent beatification/canonisation of Pope Pius XII.
Archbishop of York Neville charged his suffragans and others to take evidence with a view to his canonisation, 26 July 1386.
On 3 October 1975 Pope Paul VI declared him to be Venerable Matt Talbot, which is a step on the road to his canonisation, a process which needs evidence of a physical miracle in order to be successful.
In October of the same year, he was present at the canonisation of Oliver Plunkett, where he met the then Pope Paul VI and future Pope John Paul II who was bishop of Kraków at the time.
Richard Swinefield, Cantilupe's successor as Bishop of Hereford, wrote to Pope Nicholas IV in a letter dated 19 April 1290 proposing the bishop for canonisation, but it was not until 1307 that an investigation into Cantilupe's saintliness was initiated by Pope Clement V.