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In June, a group from the Akeman Benefice and Bicester and Islip Deanery enjoyed a six-day visit to the parish of Mönsterås with Fliseryd in our Swedish link diocese of Växjö.
For Kaid Henry and Helen Schneider, who were part of a youth exchange between the Diocese of Oxford and the Diocese of Kimberley and Kuruman last year, attending the day conference Seeking the Kingdom alongside our global partners event in Reading required a journey … in Helen’s case all the way from Birmingham.
Speakers from all of our link dioceses will be coming together next week for the Partners in World Mission conference.
We enjoyed welcoming Thomas Wärfman (Dean of Växjö Cathedral) and Mattias Östborg (Chair of the Växjö-Oxford Link Committee) to Oxford to celebrate our diocesan link with Växjö, which has been in place since 2003.
A group from our link diocese in Växjö, Sweden, visited us in May to find out about the Church of England and Oxford Diocese in particular. The visitors are all beginning careers in the Church of Sweden.
A bible reading in Patois from the Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.
Revd Martha, the Link Chairperson in Kimberley and Kuruman, and her husband Revd Canon Simon Seteso share their favourite hymn in Setswana.
Our friends at the Diocese of Växjö share their favourite traditions for Christmas time.
Clergy and laity from across the Church of England joined together for the 2024 Oxford Intercultural Mission Conference.
Church members from the Dioceses of Växjö and Oxford gather online to celebrate Season of Creation