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The Cathedral Turned Upside Down!

Published: 15th February 2018

Developed by the Cathedrals Education Department, The Cathedral TurnedUpside Down App will enable visitors to follow in the footsteps of KingCharles II and the Duke of Hamilton as they discover the important role thebuilding played in the Civil War,


Dementia Friends training running near Redditch

Published: 9th February 2018

The Churches of Stoke Prior, Wychbold, Feckenham and Bradley Green are coming together to promotedementia awareness across the communities they serve.  Dementia FriendsTraining, accredited by the Alzheimers Society, is being run on Tuesday 27&nb


Christian Aid launches new appeal

Published: 25th July 2019

ChristianAid is urging churches to support an appeal offeringa lifeline to those impacted by torrential rain, floods and landslides thathave displaced millions of people across India, Bangladesh and Nepal.Minoritycommunities, such as those belonging


Mothering Sunday 2019

Published: 5th February 2018

31st March is Mothering Sunday.


Rowing the Avon for Holland House

Published: 24th July 2019

On Thursday 1 August, threemen will be taking to the river Avon in a rowing boat to complete a 24.5 milerow from Stratford upon Avon to Cropthorne, just outside Evesham.They will be completing thissponsored row to raise money for our diocesan retreat


St Mary's, Oldswinford helped by Maintenancebooker

Published: 24th July 2019

In June, churchwardens at St Marys church in Oldswinfordnoticed a problem with the gutters and wanted to find a solution.They immediately turned to MaintenanceBooker,the new website which makes caring for churches much easier.Using MaintenanceBooker


Worcester Cathedral shortlisted to host Tim Peake’s Soyuz Spacecraft

Published: 19th January 2018

Worcester Cathedral has been shortlisted as one of five potential venues for Tim Peakes Soyuz Spacecraft to beexhibited later this year. It is an exciting prospect to be able to host such asignificant piece of modern national history in a vastly cont


New Priest for Dudley

Published: 21st January 2018

An announcement from the Bishop.


Bidding farewell to Bishop Graham

Published: 23rd July 2019

The Bishop of Dudley, Graham Usher, left the diocese at the weekend to become the Bishop of Norwich. Two celebrations were held in Worcester and Dudley to reflect the role Bishop Graham has played throughout the whole diocese.


Phil Bradford to be Rector of the Worcester West Team

Published: 14th January 2018

An announcement from the Bishop.


New Strategic Manager appointed

Published: 8th January 2018

Diane Reeves has been appointed as Strategic ProgrammeManager in the diocesan office. Funded through a grant from the ArchbishopsCouncil, Diane will help manage our programme of projects in our four priorityareas under the Kingdom People vision: chil


#LiveLent with the Church of England

Published: 3rd January 2018

This year's lent course from the Church of England will be #LiveLent- Let your light shine. It is a Lenten journey through the Gospel of John, offering ashort daily reading, a pause for reflection and prayer and a challenge toact,with a focus on


Sarah Cottrill to be Associate Priest of St Clement, Worcester

Published: 14th January 2018

​An Announcement from the Bishop.


Join Ringing out for Peace this Armistice

Published: 25th January 2018

The organisers of Battles Over, a national andinternational event marking the armistice, wants to see more than 1,000churches and cathedrals participate by ringing their bells simultaneously at7.05pm on the night of November 11th 2018.Pageantmaster B


Brockmoor Church awarded lottery grant

Published: 25th January 2018

StJohns Church in Brockmoor has received a grant for 176,100 from the HeritageLottery Fund (HLF) to carry out vital repairs and improvements to the building.Thanksto the National Lottery, work can go ahead to repair the roof, brickwork andstonework,


Fairtrade fortnight 2018

Published: 3rd January 2018

This year, Fairtrade Fortnight runs from Monday 26 February until Sunday 11 March.


Racial Justice Sunday 2018

Published: 3rd January 2018

Racial Justice Sunday is on 18 February.


Holocaust Memorial Day in Worcester

Published: 11th January 2018

Worcester Mayor Steve Mackay will host a Holocaust Memorial Day event in the Guildhall on Saturday 27 January at 10.30am.


Bishop Graham's address at the Black Country Living Museum

Published: 22nd July 2019

Acts 2.41-47 and Luke10.25-37In recent weeks the most common question that Ive been askedhas been, What will you miss about being bishop of Dudley? So here are my topten things:The warmth of the people.Slow cooked grey paysand bacon.The tell you dire


Bishop Graham's farewell sermon in the Cathedral

Published: 21st July 2019

I did a calculation last week about howmuch time I have a spent on the M5 in the last five and a bit years. I workedit out as 858 hours, plus or minus a few hours. Thats just over five weeks.Thats five weeks of my life that Im never going to get back

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Melissa Rose: 10 years of being an LLM

15th May 2025

Melissa Rose is a Reader or Licensed Lay Minister (LLM) in Dudley. She was one of our first LLMs to be trained at Queen’s Theological college and was licensed in September 2015.

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