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The 30th anniversary of women priests has been celebrated at a recent service at Bradford Cathedral, along with the commissioning of five new Women’s Ministry Advisers for the diocese.
The Ven Cat Thatcher has been installed as the new Archdeacon of Pontefract.
The Bishop of Leeds, the Rt Revd Nick Baines, has issued a joint statement with Bishop Paul Swarbrick, Lead Bishop for Africa for the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, calling for more attention to be paid to the ongoing conflict in Sudan.
Singers and choirs in West Yorkshire and beyond are being invited join together to sing a Festival Evensong in the Cathedral with Bradford Cathedral Choir in May.
One of our Wakefield area churches is going to be celebrating one of their former curates, the writer of the hymn ‘Onward Christian Soldiers’.
New resources have been released to help churches share more information about the Parish Giving Scheme.
Rural life in all its settings across our diocese will be celebrated at a special service to be held at Ripon Cathedral on Sunday, May 12.
One of our clergy has raised some £2000 for our parishes with a 75 mile sponsored journey to mark the diocese’s 10th anniversary.
One of our Ripon area priests is going to be walking some 160 miles to raise money for his churchyard and support his local fell rescue group.
Our Bradford Mission Apprentices and Leeds & Harrogate Interns, all part of our Diocesan Internship Programme, enjoyed a great start to their summer term thanks to Bishop Nick’s invitation to a lunch at Hollin House recently.
