Six new Readers licensed and two dozen long-serving celebrated
Published: 7th September 2024Blue scarves abounded in Lichfield Cathedral
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Three ready to hear your call
Published: 3rd September 2024Clergy appointed to help those considering serving the Church
Downing Street announces next area bishop of Wolverhampton
Published: 27th August 202410 Downing Street has today announced the name of the fifth Bishop of Wolverhampton.
Hanley church packed for prayer
Published: 15th August 2024Christians from many churches around the Stoke area packed into a Hanley church to pray for peace after the previous day's riots.
Lichfield church choir makes music with twin German choir
Published: 15th August 2024At the end of July the choir from St Michael-on-Greenhill, Lichfield gave a concert and sang at a Sunday morning church service in their twin city of Limburg.
Appointments and Departures
Published: 12th August 20248th August 2024
Statement on Current Issues across the Country
Published: 8th August 2024From the Bishop of Shrewsbury
Volunteer!
Published: 1st August 2024Bishop Michael ponders the nature of the Church of England and the thousands who make it work in this diocese.
Fully Known
Published: 24th July 2024Knowing and welcoming individuals - in Rocester
Much more than just a cuppa
Published: 22nd July 2024Places of Welcome are a network of hospitality, safe spaces in the local community where people can connect, belong and participate. Registration to the national network is free, but the coffee morning or drop-in should fulfil five criteria to join.
Drovers routing for Staffordshire/African charity
Published: 15th July 2024A Heath Hayes man is planning to walk on a cattle drovers' route across the Scottish highlands to raise money for Malakota, a rural community in Zambia through Staffordshire charity, Hands at Work in Africa.
Revd Ann Bucknall
Published: 12th July 2024The funeral of an ardent supporter of the St Chad Volunteer programme and teacher and missionary in Malaysia takes place in Lichfield in August.
Nana’s Washday
Published: 3rd July 2024Turning a church into a laundry, complete with thunder and lightning is perfectly normal for Julie and Louise as they support adults with complex needs and people affected by dementia.
Appointments and Departures
Published: 19th June 202419th June 2024
Working together to create safer spaces
Published: 18th June 2024In June's Chad Blog, our senior lead for Safeguarding, Neil Spiring shares some stories of how training in safeguarding has had practical positive results.
New Director of Comms named
Published: 12th June 2024Arun Kataria is to be the diocese’s Director of Communications, the second of two appointments in a month for roles key to delivering the diocese’s new strategic framework.
Appointments and Departures
Published: 6th June 20245th June 2024
First female Dean of Lichfield appointed
Published: 5th June 2024His Majesty the King has approved the nomination of The Right Reverend Janet Elizabeth McFarlane, Interim Dean of Lichfield and an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Lichfield, for appointment as Dean of Lichfield.
Joint statement by West Midlands church leaders ahead of the General Election
Published: 4th June 2024Church leaders in the West Midlands have issued a joint statement ahead of the General Election.
Church of England holds first West Midlands Racial Justice Board Meeting
Published: 31st May 2024The Church of England in the West Midlands has marked a milestone with the inaugural meeting of its Racial Justice Board earlier this month. This pivotal gathering united representatives from Birmingham, Coventry, Gloucester, Hereford, Lichfield, and Worcester to address racism and champion racial justice within the Church, society, and our communities.
Lichfield welcomes a new Strategic Programmes Director
Published: 29th May 2024Canon Nick Smeeton has been appointed to the role of Strategic Programmes Director for the Diocese of Lichfield. This is a new and crucial role for our diocese and is funded by the national church, designed to bring life and detail to the implementation of the new strategic framework recently agreed by our Diocesan Synod.
Pioneering Parishes – Creatively Connecting Church and Community
Published: 16th May 2024Maybe you have a great idea for how your parish church could connect more with its local community, but you don’t know how to make this vision a reality?
Prayers through Dementia
Published: 10th May 2024For Dementia Action Week 13–19 May 2024
Network Engagement and Impact
Published: 3rd May 2024Across our Dementia-friendly Churches Network, what's working? What's helpful? What's important? A report from Staffordshire University helps us take stock.
Hope and peace for the anxious generation
Published: 1st May 2024In a fretful, lonely and competitive digital world, your church, with all its grace and messiness, joys and frustrations, can be a place of hope and peace for the anxious generation.
Regional Racial Justice Director announced
Published: 29th April 2024The Revd Dr Evie Vernon O’Brien has been appointed as the Racial Justice Director for the Church of England in the West Midlands. Evie will take up her role in July working with six dioceses – Birmingham, Coventry, Gloucester, Hereford, Lichfield, and Worcester. It is the first collaborative project of its kind in the Church of England.
Appointments and Departures
Published: 25th April 202424th April 2024
Songs of Praise for People Impacted by Dementia
Published: 24th April 2024On 23 April Lichfield Cathedral hosted a Songs of Praise for people impacted by dementia with special guests Tony Christie and Lichfield Catheral Choristers.
Speak up and be counted
Published: 18th April 2024So often diocesan synods are perceived as boring, dry and bureaucratic. This should not be the case! Rather they should exist to serve the mission of the wider Church, to make strategic decisions, and to encourage the growth of mission and ministry in our diocese.
Sharing each others' gifts for the growth of the church
Published: 5th April 2024Lichfield Diocese was well represented at the second Intercultural Church conference, hosted this year by Bishop Martyn Snow in Leicester Diocese just before Easter.
