Partnership Area Launched

The new Partnership Area is now live. It is one of the ways in which partnerships will be supported in their early days of development. Please help to improve it by contributing information and providing feedback.

Ministries Mass 2017

On 14 July at St. Patrick's Church, Dipton, Bishop Séamus celebrated Mass to mark the movement of Paul Nichol from St. Patrick’s Parish, Peter Smith from Lanchester and Paddy Jackson from Leam Lane, moving from Lector to their final year of Acolyte in their training for the Permanent Diaconate. Tony Joy, from Washington, is moving from Candidate to Lector. They were accompanied by family, friends, Parish priests, members of the Diaconate Community, parishioners and the Formation Team.

Our Permanent Diaconate News Page has a full gallery of images from evening.

Partnerships at Pentecost

When the disciples left the locked room after they had received the Spirit, there was no stopping them! It’s as though they burst out of the room and began to preach and teach and heal and let people know about the presence of the Risen Lord among them. At Pentecost we celebrate that moment and have a number of documents to help us. A Pastoral Letter from Bishop Séamus inviting us all to you to pray for our Diocese as we formally acknowledge our new Partnerships. The prayer said to inaugurate our Partnerships (Prayer for our new Partnership) is available for everyone in the Diocese to use at any time they please.

There is a final Forward Together in Hope leaflet entitled 'Pointing the Way' for every parishioner with a note from Bishop Séamus, a reminder of our whole journey over the last three years including the luggage label used in our first leaflet inviting everyone to explore once again what it means to be a disciple, and a final note from the Forward Together in Hope team.

'Reflections from across the Diocese' offers a wide range of topics which Bishop Séamus and the Diocesan Trustees explored in their meeting in January and shows how seriously they took all the comments and observations from across the diocese. All clergy and parish representative have a copy and there are some hard copies available for each parish.