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Colin Podmore, former Clerk of the General Synod, was commissioned as Director of Forward in Faith on Monday, pledging to “work for the unity of the one holy, catholic and apostolic Church of Christ and for its mission in the world.”... Bath Abbey has appointed Dr Oliver Taylor as Project Manager for ‘Creating Voices’, an 18-month oral history project to collate the stories of the many individuals who helped care for or restore the Abbey between 1942 and 2000, a project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Friends of Bath Abbey... The Archbishop of York has appointed The Reverend Canon Dr Christopher Collingwood as Canon Chancellor and The Reverend Michael Smith as Canon Pastor, and The Chapter of York has appointed Kathryn Blacker as Chapter Steward... Revd Pete Hobson, currently Director of St Martins House, is to be seconded to Leicester Cathedral as Acting Canon Missioner, in order to oversee the preparations for the reinterment of Richard III... The Reverend Neil Traynor, currently Assistant Curate, St Mary, Barnsley is to be Bishop of Wakefield, the Rt Rev ’s Domestic Chaplain... Gerr y Lynch, currently working as a political, polling and media consultant in Northern Ireland, is to become Diocesan Communications Director for Salisbury The Bishop of Middleton has appointed The Revd Ken Flood to become Area Dean of Hulme...