Clergy news

Appointments

Revv Can Sarah Gower, p-in-c, Alwalton and Chesterton (Ely), to be i, Alwalton and Chesterton with Christ Church, Orton Goldhay and Orton Malborne (same dio); Claire Abraham, ac, Westcliff St Alban and Southend St Mark (Chelmsford), to be p-in-c, North Shoebury and Southchurch Holy Trinity (same dio); Dawn Butcher, ac, Broomfield (Chelmsford), to be v, Warley Christ Church and Great Warley St Mary the Virgin (same dio); Sebastian Harries, assoc p, Chelmsford Cathedral (Chelmsford), to be res can and precentor, Chelmsford Cathedral (same dio); Ben Williams, c, Oadby Great Glen (Leicester), to be tv, Bishop’s Cleeve and Woolstone with Gotherington and Oxenton (Gloucester); Rachel Bedford, pto (London), to be c (SSM), Brompton Holy Trinity (same dio); Anderson Jeremiah, pto (Blackburn), to be bp, Edmonton (London); Malcolm Pyatt, ac (SSM), Brimington (Derby), to be ac (known as assoc p, SSM) Newbold St John with Dunston (same dio).

Retirements and resignations

Revv Paul Conrad, v, Hampstead Christ Church (London), to retire on May 29 2024; Ivor Moody, vd and can res, Chelmsford Cathedral (Chelmsford), to retire on May 31 2024; Penny Seabrook, assoc v, Fulham All Saints (London), to retire on May 31 2024; Capt Paul Warren, urban missioner, Bermondsey St James and St Anne (Southwark) to retire on May 31 2024; Ann Clarke, chapl, Goldsmith’s University (Southwark), resigned with effect from May 31 2024; Can Helen Guest, r, Killamarsh and Renishaw, (Derby), to retire with effect from June 1, and become can emeritus, Derby Cathedral (same dio); Rt Rev Rob Gillion, Bishop for the Arts, to retire as v, Streatham Christ Church (Southwark) on June 9 2024; Pauline Percy, ac, Sowerby and Sessay and Thirkleby with Kilburn and Bagby (York), to retire on June 10 2024.