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  • Uncertain times ahead, Church Commissioners’ annual report warns
  • How best to recruit a new parish priest

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thinkinganglicans.org.uk /1 month ago

Church Commissioners Annual Report 2025

The Church Commissioners for England published their annual report for 2025 last week. There was an accompanying press release (copied below) which concentrated on the endowment fu...

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churchtimes.co.uk /1 month ago

Uncertain times ahead, Church Commissioners’ annual report warns

THE Church Commissioners delivered a return of eight per cent in 2025, their annual report records. Of their largest 20 equity holdings, 14 are now in technology companies, includi...

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churchtimes.co.uk /2 weeks ago

How best to recruit a new parish priest

ADDRESSING the House of Lords in 1874, the Bishop of Peterborough, Dr William Connor Magee, delivered a thunderous denunciation. “We know only too well the announcements of ‘eligib...

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churchtimes.co.uk /1 month ago

Deans to meet MPs in June to discuss financial sustainability of cathedrals

CATHEDRAL deans are to meet MPs next month to discuss the financial sustainability of cathedrals in light of the Theos report, it was announced at the National Cathedrals Conferenc...

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anglicanmainstream.org /1 month ago

Church of England House of Bishops meeting May 2026

Press Release, Media Centre. The House of Bishops met in person from 19th to 21st May in York. The House spent time discussing the Church of England’s Faith and Order Commission’s...

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churchtimes.co.uk /1 month ago

Parishes should cherish church-building officers

IT MAY not surprise you to learn that, of all the complaints that arrive in an archdeacon’s inbox, faculties top the list. Terrifying bedtime tales told to the grandchildren of chu...

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churchtimes.co.uk /1 month ago

Upholstered chairs ‘not appropriate’ for listed medieval church, Chancellor rules

UPHOLSTERED chairs must not be introduced into a listed church building of special architectural and historic interest, the Consistory Court of the diocese of Oxford has ruled. Th...

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anglicanmainstream.org /3 days ago

Church of England stresses ‘moral imperative’ to slavery reparations

from Yahoo News The Church of England has insisted it has a “moral imperative” to address its historic links to the trans-Atlantic slave trade amid opposition to its plans to spend...

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churchtimes.co.uk /6 days ago

Church Commissioners challenged over decision not to back ‘30 by 30’ conservation target

THE Church Commissioners’ argument that fiduciary duties prevent their backing the international goal of protecting 30 per cent of land and sea for nature by 2030 has been challeng...

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churchtimes.co.uk /1 month ago

Archbishop of Canterbury: Clergy need care, too

I HAD the privilege last week of delivering a sermon at the 371st Festival of what is now called the Clergy Support Trust. With a history going back to the foundation in 1655 of t...

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churchtimes.co.uk /1 month ago

Keep discussion about Canterbury and Anglican Communion open, House of Bishops agrees

THE theological response of the Church of England’s Faith and Order Commission (FAOC) to the Nairobi-Cairo Proposals was discussed by the House of Bishops when it met in York from...

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churchtimes.co.uk /3 weeks ago

Pensions Board celebrates centenary with Southwark Cathedral service

THE solid joys of scripture brought clarity to the Church of England Pensions Board’s Service of Thanksgiving in Southwark Cathedral on Tuesday. “Those who lavish gold from the pur...

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churchtimes.co.uk /2 weeks ago

Appointments

ALDERSON. The Revd Hannah Alderson, St Luke’s (Lazenby) Chaplain, at the University of Exeter, to be Rector of St Thomas’s, Exeter (Exeter). ALLEN. The Revd Rebecca Allen, Transfo...

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churchtimes.co.uk /1 month ago

Resignations and retirements

ADDISON. The Revd Dr Joyce Addison, Priest-in-Charge of St Martin’s, Maidstone, and Hon. Canon of Canterbury Cathedral (Canterbury): 2 September. BLAY. The Revd Ian Blay, Rector o...

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churchtimes.co.uk /1 week ago

VAT relief and grants are vital for church buildings, Lords hears

CHURCH buildings are “vital community assets contributing to heritage, to social cohesion, and to local economies”, the House of Lords has heard. Several peers who were contributi...

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churchtimes.co.uk /4 days ago

Bishop of Norwich defends research underpinning Project Spire

PROJECT SPIRE — the plan to set aside £100 million from the Church Commissioners’ funds for investment to address the legacy of the slave trade — has not been abandoned, but a lega...

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churchtimes.co.uk /1 month ago

Canon ousted from council’s standards board after Reform UK takes over Calderdale

REFORM UK on Calderdale Council, in West Yorkshire, in sweeping changes after winning 34 of the 54 seats, has removed the Vicar of Halifax Minster, Canon Hilary Barber, as the long...

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churchtimes.co.uk /1 month ago

Maintenance grants for ordinands shaken up

THE new maintenance grant scheme for ordinands is more generous, simple, and consistent, the National Ministry Team said this week. About £2 million more per year is to be investe...

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churchtimes.co.uk /1 month ago

Places of worship in high-deprivation areas to be prioritised under new heritage funding scheme

HERITAGE funding for the 14,000 listed places of worship in England, including cathedrals, is to come in upfront capital grants, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)...

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churchtimes.co.uk /1 month ago

Appointments

ARMSTRONG. The Revd John Armstrong, Rector of Wombwell (Sheffield), to be also Area Dean of Wath. BARTLETT. The Revd Paul Bartlett, NS Assistant Curate of Great Parndon (Chelmsfor...

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anglicanmainstream.org /3 weeks ago

Church of England disciplinary overhaul set to become law

by Tola Mbakwe, Premier A major overhaul of the Church of England’s clergy discipline system has cleared its final parliamentary stage and is now set to become law. The Clergy Cond...

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churchtimes.co.uk /1 month ago

Appointments

Winchester archdeacons THE next Archdeacon of Winchester is to be the Revd Simon Butler, Associate Priest of North Hampshire Downs, in the diocese of Winchester. He trained at Rip...

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churchtimes.co.uk /1 month ago

Theos report celebrates ministry of England’s cathedrals — but highlights financial ‘perma-crisis’

BOTH the Church’s funding bodies and the Government should ramp up investment in cathedrals, where financial pressures are resulting in commercial bookings that risk “crowding out...

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anglicanmainstream.org /1 month ago

New more generous support for ordinands announced as numbers in training rise for the first time in four years

Press Release, Church of England Media Centre. The Church of England has announced a multi-million-pound overhaul of the maintenance grant system for people training for ordained m...

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