At a press conference held today at the Church in Wales' provincial offices in Cardiff (1100 am, Tuesday 4 May 2004), the result of the episcopal election to choose the 80th Bishop of Bangor was announced. The next Bishop of Bangor is to be the Ven Anthony Crockett, presently Archdeacon of Carmarthen in the diocese of St Davids.
04 May 2004
The Most Revd Dr Robin Eames, the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland, preached at the reopening and rededication of St Patrick's Cathedral Armagh on Friday 30 April.
04 May 2004
The Belfast Islamic Council and the Select Vestry of St Thomas's Parish Church in South Belfast met for the first time this week to begin a dialogue aimed at developing greater understanding between Muslims and Christians.
30 April 2004
As chief pastor of the Anglican community in the Holy Land, I greeted Mordechai Vanunu this morning at 11am as he was released from Ashkelon prison. He is an Anglican Christian and expressed his desire to offer thanks to God for his release from prison as his first act as a free man.
24 April 2004
It was announced from 10 Downing Street on 19 April that the Queen had approved the nomination of The Revd Canon Dr Jeffrey John as the next Dean of St Albans. Canon Jeffery John, who is also to be Rector of the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Albans, is currently Chancellor and Canon Theologian of Southwark Cathedral.
22 April 2004
The Most Revd Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, gave the John Mere Commemoration Sermon at St Benet's Church in Cambridge last night.
21 April 2004
Mary's Magnificat! The image of Our Lady of Walsingham, usually to be found in the Holy House at the Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham is going, "on the road" nationwide, to visit a range of secular places including a prison, a shopping centre, a school, an airport and a hospital.
13 April 2004
Salaam and grace to you from our Lord Jesus Christ the risen from the dead, and from Jerusalem, the Mother City of our faith, the city of the Resurrection. On behalf of our Episcopal Diocese - the Diocese of Jerusalem and the Middle East - both lay and ordained - I wish you God's richest blessings this Easter-tide and encourage you to continue to pray for us and with us
11 April 2004
Brothers and Sisters...Christ is risen! Let us rejoice. Let us achieve, with the grace of God, our own resurrection, spiritual and social. As we gaze on the Cross of Christ, we need to ask ourselves some penetrating questions if we would claim to be true disciples.
11 April 2004
A good few years ago, I heard a distinguished American scholar of ancient history commenting on the proclamation of the resurrection as it would have been heard in the classical world. 'If an educated Greek or Roman had been told that someone had been raised from the dead', he said, 'his first question would have been "How do you get him back into his grave again?"'
11 April 2004