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It was a joyful, colourful, multicultural three-hour liturgy. At Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, the Revd Austin Rios was consecrated the bishop coadjutor of the Diocese of California. I have...

http://eurobishop.blogspot.com/2024/05/bishop-austin-rios-of-california.html

The Malines Conversation Group gathered on Saturday at the Sofia Centre just outside Helsinki for our annual sessions. The Malines Group brings together Anglican and Roman Catholic theologian...

http://eurobishop.blogspot.com/2024/04/malines-conversations-begin-in-helsinki.html

Deacon Frances and I packed up our office yesterday and turned over our official files, emails and equipment. Thus a close working together for 22 years comes to an end. So it is hard to bel...

http://eurobishop.blogspot.com/2024/03/farewell-to-diocese-in-europe.html

Outside the Cathedral in Helsinki Yesterday, 8 December, was a very full Advent day, with activities redolent of the themes of the season. It was, of course, the Feast of the Conception of t...

http://eurobishop.blogspot.com/2023/12/advent-in-helsinki-mary-churchs-calling.html

The congregation of Christ the King in Tampere was established as a joint ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland and the Diocese in Europe back in 2006. Both the Finnish Churc...

http://eurobishop.blogspot.com/2023/10/christ-king-tampere-confirmations.html

  The Nordic/Baltic synod met in Copenhagen from 29 September to 1 October. This is one of the most scattered of our deaneries. Clergy and lay representatives came together from our chaplai...

http://eurobishop.blogspot.com/2023/10/peacemaking-theme-of-nordicbaltic-synod.html

  It is synod season once again for much of the Diocese in Europe.  The synod of the Archdeaconry of Italy and Malta met from 26 to 29 September in Rome. Fittingly there was a strong foc...

http://eurobishop.blogspot.com/2023/10/st-francis-st-clare-and-creationtide-at.html

Chancellor David Wright (on the right) On Sunday 24 September, the Revd Prebendary David Wright became the Chancellor of St Paul’s Pro Cathedral in Valletta, Malta, and Chaplain of the ...

http://eurobishop.blogspot.com/2023/10/ecumenical-civic-and-diplomatic-welcome.html

Most people in this diocese know Frances Hiller. Deacon Frances has served as my chaplain since 11 November 2002! She is a member of the Diocesan Ministry Team, the Bishop’s Senior Staff, a...

http://eurobishop.blogspot.com/2023/09/canon-frances-hiller.html

  History was made today for the Union of Utrecht, the Old Catholic Communion of Churches, with which the Churches of the Anglican Communion are in full communion. The Polish member of the ...

http://eurobishop.blogspot.com/2023/09/4-new-bishops-for-polish-catholic.html

The following announcement was made today by the Diocese in Europe: > Bishop David Hamid, suffragan bishop of the Diocese in Europe and > one of the longest serving bishops�...

http://eurobishop.blogspot.com/2023/09/an-announcement-made-today.html

  The Roman Catholic World Youth Day (which lasted a week from 1 to 6 August!) was likely the largest gathering of youth within the geographic territory of the Diocese. 1.5 million young pe...

http://eurobishop.blogspot.com/2023/08/15-million-young-people-in-lisbon.html

  Transporting Sta Margarita to the start of the procession One of the privileges of work in the Diocese in Europe is being part of the rich local ecumenical relations in so many places. A...

http://eurobishop.blogspot.com/2023/08/sta-margarita-patron-of-menorca.html

  On Saturday 22 April, the Church of St Edmund’s Oslo, with its Chaplain the Revd Canon Joanna Udal participated in a city-centre ecumenical event designed to bring the quite secular Nor...

http://eurobishop.blogspot.com/2023/05/ecumenical-and-multicultural-ministry.html

Good Friday at St Paul's The Diocese in Europe is blessed with three cathedrals: The Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Gibraltar, Holy Trinity Pro-Cathedral in Brussels, and St Paul's Pro-Cathe...

http://eurobishop.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-southernmost-cathedral-in-church-of.html

St George's Madrid The Chrism Mass is a key moment each year when the unity of those engaged in public ministry is manifested and renewed, and when the sacred oils of baptism, the sick and ch...

http://eurobishop.blogspot.com/2023/04/chrism-masses-renewing-ministerial.html

  There has been a Church of England presence in Venice since 1604, when the Revd William Bedell arrived in the city as part of the embassy of Queen Elizabeth I to the Doge. Over 400 years ...

http://eurobishop.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-very-revd-lucinda-laird-chaplain-of.html

  We send our best wishes and assurance of our prayers to Bishop Erik Eckerdal, who was consecrated the Bishop of Visby in the Church of Sweden on Sunday 15 January, in the great cathedral...

http://eurobishop.blogspot.com/2023/01/blessings-on-new-bishop-of-visby-our.html

It was not what I was planning for the week after the New Year break, but nevertheless it was a  privilege to be one of the representatives of the Anglican Communion at the funeral of Pope B...

http://eurobishop.blogspot.com/2023/01/pope-emeritus-benedict-xvi-requiem.html

A Ukrainian Icon of the Nativity The greatest and most loving gift we celebrate at this time of the year is the very birth of Our Lord. The great Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner summed it up: �...

http://eurobishop.blogspot.com/2022/12/christ-is-born-to-save-us-with-his-love.html

  The mass for the Third Sunday of Advent at St Nicholas, Helsinki, was an all age eucharist, incorporating a nativity play for the Liturgy of the Word, and after the communion of the peopl...

http://eurobishop.blogspot.com/2022/12/st-nicholas-helsinki-embodies-symbolism.html

On Sunday 30 October, the Archbishop of Uppsala, the Most Revd Dr Antje Jackelén retired. Archbishop Jackelén is a long-standing friend of the Church of England and as the Archbishop of the...

http://eurobishop.blogspot.com/2022/11/farewell-to-archbishop-of-uppsala.html

Every time I pay a pastoral visit to St Anthony Abbot Church in Padova, I come away inspired and deeply moved by the infectious and joyful faith of the community. My most recent visit in Octo...

http://eurobishop.blogspot.com/2022/11/commitment-faith-and-love-at-st-anthony.html

St George’s Taormina, which has to be located in one of the most dramatically beautiful settings in the diocese, celebrated the centenary of their building on 14 October. The festive euchar...

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  James Bartle, Fr Tony, John Wilson and Daniel Tsoi At the weekly eucharist at the Anglican Centre in Rome this week, on the Feast of St Luke the Evangelist, I had the privilege of presid...

http://eurobishop.blogspot.com/2022/10/diocese-in-europe-ordinand-in-rome.html