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Bishop Colin Bennetts RIP. The Rt Revd Colin Bennetts has died after a long battle with cancer.
Bikes, bishops, tractors and Bridget Jones to help save England's historic churches. ENJOY a Psalmathon, go biking with the Bishop and visit the church featured in the new Bridget Jones film, Bridget Jones' Baby ; just some of the things to do on Ride and Stride on Saturday, the annual fundraising day to save England's historic churches.
Around the Deaneries: Wendover. Vital Statistics: Area Dean: Mark Dearnley Lay Chair: Gavin Oldham Clergy: 20 Churches: 20 Benefices: 9 I meet the Revd Mark Dearnley and the Revd Michael Hunt, the Curate at St Mary's, Wendover, in the town where we talk about the deanery over a coffee.
Around the Deaneries - Vale of White Horse. An encouraging mixture of mission is going on in the Vale of White Horse Deanery in South Oxfordshire.
Around the Archdeaconries: New Communities. Around the Archdeaconries is a series of features on various themes, inspired by the Archdeaconry Plans.
Appointment of new principal. THE Rt Rd Humphrey Southern, suffragan Bishop of Repton in the Diocese of Derby, has been appointed Principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon.
Major grant for science and theology. THANKS to a grant of £128,042 from the Templeton World Charity Foundation, awarded to the Ian Ramsey Centre at Oxford University, the work of Revd Jennifer Brown as Science Missioner at the Churn Benefice will be continued and extended.
Christ Church: quite a classroom. CHILDREN are taking time out from the classroom to learn about the rich history of Oxford' s Christ Church Cathedral.
150 years of faith in Wokingham Without. THE Bishop of Reading, the Rt Revd Andrew Proud, began celebrations at St Sebastian's Church on Pentecost Sunday as he rang the bell in the church's new bell tower, at the beginning of their 150th Anniversary Service.
Sarah Wearne writes about memorials of the Great War in Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.