Appointments in the Clergy

Rev Stephen Brown, SSM c, St Mary, Hayes (London), to be p-in-c, St Alphage, Edmonton, and St Matthew, Ponders End (same dio); Preb Alison Elizabeth

Coles, chapl and chapl team leader, Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust (Lichfield), to be also bp’s adviser on healthcare chaplaincy (same dio); Revv Ashley Stuart Collishaw, pioneer min, Cheltenham Network Church (Gloucester), to be v, Holy Apostles, Charlton Kings, and p-in-c, St Michael, Cheltenham (same dio); Raphael Thomas

Marie James Duckett, v, St Martin, Bradley (Lichfield), to be Royal Navy chapl, Plymouth (Exeter); Jason Gardner, c, St Peter, West Harrow (London), to be c within the City parish of Preston (Blackburn); Dr Julie

Gittoes, res can, Guildford Cathedral, (Guildford), to be v, St Mary and Christ Church, Hendon (London); Pauline Ann Godfrey, head of discipleship and vocations, and deputy director of miss and min (Gloucester), to be also hon can, Gloucester Cathedral (same dio); Karen Ann

Gooding, assoc p, The Wantsum Group (Canterbury), to be also p-in-c, St Saviour, Westgate-onsea (same dio); Ravi Holy to be ad, West Bridge (Canterbury);

Jacqueline Diane Hyde, v, St John the Evangelist, Churchdown and Innsworth (Gloucester), to be also hon can, Gloucester Cathedral (same dio); Christopher Willis Maclay, ad, Forest South, and v, Bream (Gloucester), to be also hon can, Gloucester Cathedral (same dio); Simon Maddison to be v, Cross Heath and of St Paul, Newcastle (Lichfield); David O’brien, v, Shelton and Oxon (Lichfield), to be v, St Thomas, Blackpool (Blackburn); Phil Selby, asst c, Trinity Church, Buxton (Derby), to be r, Stanton-by-dale w Dale Abbey and Risley (same dio); Karen Janis Stanton, r, Kinver and Enville (Lichfield), to be v, Hale and Ashley (Chester); Elaine Karen Wykes, NSM c, Anstey and Thurcaston w Cropston (Leicester), to be chapl, HMP/YOI Drake Hall (Lichfield).

Retirements and Resignations

Preb Peter John Mockford, v, Blurton and Dresden, and area co-ordinator for deliverance, Stafford EA (Lichfield), to retire with effect from May 31.