As the Leicester Cathedral Revealed project progresses, the last service in the building will be held on Sunday 2 January 2022. After that the building will close its doors until autumn 2023, for long awaited major repair and restoration works and the construction of a new visitor and learning centre, to be known as the Chapter House.
The Bishop of Leicester has appointed a Social Policy Adviser (two days per week and funded nationally by the Church Commissioners). Florence Gildea will start in the role in the new year but will spend occasional days in the diocese before then.
St Martins House Conference Centre & Lodge are delighted to announce that it has joined companies and organisations such as Aviva, Deloitte and Oxfam in signing up to the Good Business Charter (GBC), an accreditation that seeks to raise the bar on business practices for employees, tax, the environment, customers and suppliers.
The Revd Canon Lusa Nsenga-Ngoy, currently Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Mission and Ministry Enabler in the Diocese of Leicester, has today been announced as the Diocese of London's next Bishop of Willesden, covering the boroughs of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and Hillingdon.
As part of Interfaith week 2021, Bishop Martyn visited Masjid Al Falah on Thursday 18 November, accompanied by Tom Wilson and Riaz Ravat of the St Philip's Centre.
Little fires warmed the hands and lit the hearts of members of a fresh expression of Church in Houghton on the Hill recently, as they gathered in the vicarage garden to hear the Good News of Jesus.
Here are some online Advent Calendars that you might find helpful aid's in your everyday prayer this Advent season
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More details of the announcement day when the Bishop-elect of Loughborough was introduced to Leicestershire
Last weekend saw the first Bishop's Big Conversation weekend since 2019. Due to the pandemic planned weekends have been unable to go ahead so it was with a sense of great joy that the postponed weekend at St Christopher's, Saffron Lane was finally able to take place.
The Bishop of Leicester led services at the National Memorial Arboretum on Armistice Day and the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph in Leicester