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This is the engagement diary of the Bishop of Worcester, the Rt Revd Dr Peter Selby, for October 2006. Please contact Sam Setchell on 07852 302516 for further details of the diary, requests for photographs and biographical details.
Sunday 1st in Hagley
10.30am – The Bishop will be consecrating an extension to the churchyard at St. John’s Church following a service of Holy Communion.
Monday 2nd in London
9am – The Bishop will attend a property tour as a member of the Church Commissioners’ Assets Committee.
12.30pm – The Bishop will attend a meeting of the House of Bishops.
Tuesday 3rd and Wednesday 4th in London
The Bishop will attend the meeting of the House of Bishops.
Thursday 5th in Worcester
7.30pm – The Bishop will chair a Bishop’s Council meeting
Saturday 7th in Worcester
10.15am – The Bishop will visit the Change for Unity exhibition in Worcester Cathedral.
Sunday 8th in Dudley
10am – The Bishop will confirm candidates at Christ Church, Coseley
4pm – The Bishop will attend evensong in Worcester Cathedral with the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham and the Choir of St. Chad’s RC Cathedral.
Monday 9th in Worcester and Malvern
10.30am – The Bishop will hold his quarterly meeting of full-time Hospital Chaplains from both Worcestershire and Dudley at the Old Palace.
1pm – The Bishop will address a meeting of the Malvern Deanery Clergy Chapter*
Wednesday 11th in Hartlebury
10am – The Bishop will host a meeting for Diocesan Counsellors
4pm – The Bishop will host a meeting welcoming newly qualified teachers (NQTs) teaching in Church of England schools across Worcestershire and Dudley.
Thursday 12th in Worcester and Wordsley
10am – The Bishop will attend the West Midlands Churches Forum at St George’s Roman Catholic Church in Worcester
7.30pm – The Bishop will license the Revd Garry Ward as a Vicar in the Wordsley team ministry at Holy Trinity, Wordsley.
Saturday 14th in Brierley Hill
2pm – The Bishop will preach at a service of rededication at St. Mark’s Church, Pensnett
There is a separate press release available on this.
Sunday 15th in Kidderminster
10.30am – The Bishop will confirm candidates from Kidderminster at St. Mary’s Church.
Monday 16th at Hartlebury
12.30pm – The Bishop will chair the AGM for the Hartlebury State Rooms Trust
Tuesday 17th in Hartlebury and London
9.30am – The Bishop will host a meeting of the Industrial Mission Chaplains.
5pm – The Bishop will attend the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Penal Affairs, which will be addressed by the Chief Executive of the National Offender Management Service.
Wednesday 18th in Stourbridge, Dudley and Stourport
8.30am – The Bishop will license the Revd Martin Soar as Chaplain of Old Swinford Hospital School.
Midday – The Bishop will preach and celebrate at the prayer centre at Russell’s Hall Hospital, Dudley.
7pm – The Bishop will attend a meeting of the Stourport Peace and Justice Group.
Thursday 19th in London and Hanley Swan
11am – The Bishop will attend a Human Resources conference in London.
7.30pm – The Bishop will attend a meeting of the Upton deanery Chapter.*
Monday 30th in Redditch
7.30pm – The Bishop will preside at the Diocesan Synod meeting at St. Peter’s Church, Ipsley
*Chapter meetings are the regular meetings for all the clergy in a particular deanery (group of parishes).
ENDS
The Diocese of Worcester is one of 44 dioceses in the Church of England. It covers an area of 671 square miles and includes parishes in the County of Worcestershire, the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, and a few parishes in northern Gloucestershire, south east Wolverhampton and Sandwell.
