A Statement from the Bishop of Salisbury, the Right Revd Stephen Lake
On the current violence across the UK.
News and Media
80th year anniversary of Roma Holocaust marked in Dorset
"No longer the forgotten people of the Holocaust" said Betty Smith Billington from the Dorset based Kushti Bok charity
Year 3 handmade beautiful banner
Year 3 went on to tell me they had been learning about Roman mosaics – so decided to put these two bits of learning together. So they made this lovely mosaic representing the story of Pentecost.
Farewell and thank you at diocesan synod
The final diocesan synod of the current three year period met in Salisbury to worship together and thank those who are stepping down after – in some cases – decades of membership.
Dorset Father and Son Pilgramage for Christian Aid!
In May, we wrote of Geoff and Will Sherwood (from St Luke's, Parkstone, Poole) fundraising challenge to complete a 3,400-mile ‘reverse pilgrimage’ from Cyprus to Canterbury. You can read all about this here.
A royal visit to the Channel Islands!
A small glimpse into HM King Charles III and Queen Camilla's visit.
Drawing clergy together
The annual clergy day invited clergy from across the diocese to come together
Salisbury diocese part of pilot to launch new worshipping communities
40 pilot projects have been chosen to create new worshipping communities through partnerships between schools and churches
Eleven deacons and eleven priests ordained this Petertide
Eleven new priests and eleven deacons were ordained in services over the weekend, with one priest who has waited 14 years after her diocese voted against ordination of women to be ordained in Jersey this evening
Praying for New Deacons and Priests
With ordinations happening this weekend, we encourage the Diocese as a whole to pray together for those being ordained, as they start their new ministry
