This is the engagement diary of the Bishop of Dudley, the Rt Revd David Walker, for January 2008. Please contact Rachel Edwards on 07852 302516 for further details of the diary, requests for photographs and biographical details.

Monday 7th - Thursday 10th January in Leeds

Bishop David will be at the House of Bishops Meeting in Leeds

Sunday 13th January in Redditch and Hartlebury

Bishop David will be attending a Local Ministry Team Licensing at St Luke's Redditch and then the licensing of Revd Peter Kerr at Hartlebury.

Monday 14th January in Birmingham

Bishop David will be attending the licensing of Revd Viv Baldwin, Chaplain of West Midlands Police in Birmingham.  Later in the day he will be chairing Dudley MBC Standards Committee.

Thursday 17th January in Malvern

Bishop David will be licensing Revd Hartley Roger Watson at the Beauchamp Community.

Friday 18th – Saturday 19th January at Holland House, Pershore

The Bishop will be at a Bishop's Council residential meeting in Cropthorne, Worcestershire.

Sunday 20th January in Worcester

Bishop David will be preaching and presiding at the St Wulfstan celebrations at the Cathedral.

Monday 21st January in Birmingham

The Bishop will be attending a meeting of the West Midlands Fire and Rescue Authority, Birmingham

Tuesday 22nd January in London

Bishop David will be attending the Committee for Minority Ethnic Anglican Concerns (CMEAC) in London.

Friday 25th January in Dudley and Kidderminster

Bishop David will be speaking at the Holocaust Memorial Day at Dudley College and later attending the Oldington & Foley Park Pathfinders Oscars Evening in Kidderminster.

Sunday 27th January in Redditch and Bromsgrove

Bishop David will be preaching and presiding at St John's, Greenlands,

and later a Confirmation Service at Fairfield.

Wednesday 30th January in Redditch

Bishop David will be visiting the St John's Youth Group at Ipsley.

Thursday 31st January in London

The Bishop will be chairing the Housing Associations Charities Trust in London.

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.