The new diocese has been strengthened with the licensing of more than twenty new Readers at three different licensing services which took place between the end of September and mid-October.
At the church of St John the Evangelist, Ben Rhydding, Bishop Tom Butler admitted and licensed eight new Readers from the historic diocese of Bradford.
Rosanne Anderson for St James, Cross Roads-cum-Lees, Keighley.
Tom Chilton for the parish of Sutton with Cowling & Lothersdale
Jan Hesselwood for St. Michael, Cottingley
Judith Johnson for the Ingleborough Team Ministry
Louis Della-Porta for St Mary & St Cuthbert, Bolton Abbey
Margaret Soltys for the parish of Shelf with Buttershaw
John Taylor for St Lawrence & St Paul, Pudsey
Also licensed:
John Capewell for St John the Evangelist, Bierley
Frances Jordan for St. James, Bolton, Bradford.
At St. James the Great , Manston , Leeds, Bishop Nick Baines admitted and licensed six new Readers from the historic Ripon and Leeds diocese.
Kay Elizabeth Brown Leeds Minster
Sarah Louise Ann Martin St. Peter High Harrogate
Lisa Carey Mahoney St. James the Great Manston
Carol Stenner All Saints and St. Philip Osmondthorpe
Anna Louise Vollans Leeds Riverside BMO
Gerald David Wainwright Moor Allerton & Shadwell Team Ministry.
And at Dewsbury Minster seven new readers from the former Wakefield diocese were admitted and licensed by Bishop Tony Robinson
Karen Atkinson St John the Baptist, Kirkheaton and St Bartholomew, Grange Moor
Paul Brier The Net, Huddersfield
Nigel Codman St John the Baptist, Kirkheaton and St Bartholomew, Grange Moor
Kathleen Haigh-Hutchinson St Matthew, Lightcliffe and St Chad, Hove Edge
Diane Komorowski St Saviour, Brownhill
Lynn Lord St Mary the Virgin, Elland, and All Saints, Elland
Valerie Shuttleworth Upper Holme Valley Team Ministry
Also pictured is Jane Roberts from St John the Baptist, Penistone, now in the Diocese of Sheffield - Jane was Licensed in Sheffield Cathedral.
Pictured (right) is the Archdeacon of Halifax, Ven Anne Dawtry