New Dean for Aberdeen & Orkney
THE recent Dean, and the primary woman to carry the post, has been appointed for the diocese of Aberdeen & Orkney. She is Canon Jennifer Holden, who succeeds the Very Revd Dr Dennis Berk, who resigned the post in 2021, across the time that allegations of bullying were made against the diocesan Bishop, the Rt Revd Anne Dyer. Canon Holden worked in community engagement, education, and communication before her ordination. She is a former Senior Research Fellow on the University of Aberdeen, where she explored the impact of digital technology on rural communities, and he or she has a doctorate. She will proceed to be an Adviser for Christian Life, whose ministry is to encourage discipleship.
Cathedral first to affix Bloomberg Connects App
LIVERPOOL CATHEDRAL has develop into the primary cathedral within the UK and Europe, and the second on the planet, to affix the Bloomberg Connects App, it was announced on Tuesday. The app, a worldwide digital guide to arts and culture, offers greater than 40 languages. A cathedral Facebook post said: “This milestone puts us alongside world-renowned institutions like The Met in NYC, Guggenheim, and National Theatre, in addition to local legends like FACT Liverpool and National Museums Liverpool.” The Dean, the Very Revd Dr Sue Jones, said the collaboration “allows us to welcome much more visitors, each in person and virtually, and to share the great thing about our sacred cathedral in a recent and interesting way”.
Salvationist to move Spring Harvest
THE recent Head of Spring Harvest, the Christian teaching holiday, is Major Jo Moir, a former midwife and hospital chaplain, who joins from the Salvation Army. She has managed events on the Royal Albert Hall and ICC Birmingham and Wales, and been an everyday author and presenter of Sunday Worship on BBC Radio 4. She took up her post on 21 July, and succeeds Abby Guinness, who held the position for 11 years. Spring Harvest might be in Skegness (30 March-3 April) and Minehead (6-10 April).
Clergy fraud alert in Chester diocese
THE diocese of Chester has issued a fraud alert after reports to the People System Support and Clergy Payroll teams that “fraudulent text messages have been sent to clergy claiming that they need to submit their HLC return online or their stipend might be stopped.” A notice on the diocesan website says that these teams don’t send text messages about HLC returns or stipend payments, tells clergy to not click on any links in text messages purporting to be from them, and all the time to log in on to their People System account. Fraudulent messages might be reported to: clergy.payments@churchofengland.org or report.fraud@churchofengland.org.
Happisburgh could have to present up its dead
MORE than 100 sailors shipwrecked before they might join Nelson in 1801 and buried in a mass grave look set to be reinterred, along with a whole lot of others of bodies buried within the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, Happisburgh, in Norfolk, North Norfolk News reports. Coastal erosion signifies that there are actually only 80 metres of land between the crumbling cliff edge and the churchyard. The diocese of Norwich, Happisburgh Parish Council, and North Norfolk District Council are working with the Coastwise scheme, which seeks to organize coastal communities threatened by erosion and offer guidance on burial grounds in danger.
Church Army commissions evangelists
NINE recent Church Army evangelists were formally admitted and commissioned in Sheffield Cathedral on 19 July by the Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani, who chairs the Church Army Board. Lawrence Bellew, Meg Borges, Sarah Clayton, Bing Liu, Anna Mansbergh, Rachel Marlow, Tracey Needham, Hannah O’Neill, and Jack Wright might be deployed across the UK and Ireland (Letters, 25 July).
