St John at Hackney Churchyard Gardens have reached the semi-finals of The National Lottery Awards 2009, in the Best Heritage Project category.
The work of scores of volunteers who serve their neighbourhood through a church-based community project was celebrated as part of National Volunteering Week.
The Bishop of London led more than two hundred children in animal masks and costumes on a 'Noah’s Ark' style journey up the River Thames yesterday (Thursday 2 July).
The Bishop of London has officially opened St Thomas's Church of England Primary in North Kensington.
A number of the clergy of the City Chapter visited Dublin on June 21-23 to gather the clergy together to promote a greater sense of harmony in instances of parochial cooperation, and to enable the clergy to learn something of Anglicanism in another Western English-speaking context.
The Bishop of London attended the Church of St Lawrence Jewry in the City of London yesterday to License the Revd Canon David Parrott as the new Guild Vicar of the church.
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There was a wonderful day of celebration at St Matthew's Church Yiewsley on Sunday 28th June as the church celebrated its 150th anniversary.
A lawyer, a city banker and a former nurse are among the 36 new clergy who were welcomed to the Diocese of London at an ordination service in St Paul’s Cathedral on Saturday.
Wednesday 17 June was a day of uplifting double celebration at Twyford as the school community dedicated a new chapel and officially opened its new performance centre.
The St John’s Bible is the first handwritten illuminated Bible commissioned since the advent of the printing press and will be on display at St Martin-in-the-Fields from this weekend.
Children from Haringey and Enfield schools joined Christians across the country in celebrating the feast of Corpus Christi today, marking the occasion with a special Eucharistic procession and a visit from the Bishop of Edmonton.
The Bishop of London and a Government minister today spelled out the importance of the Church of England's role in mobilising action on climate change, as its Shrinking the Footprint campaign unveiled energy saving toolkits for every parish in a bid to create the 20% Church by 2050.
A pioneering project aiming to disseminate fascinating and important new insights into the modern history of religion in London will be launched at a reception at Lambeth Palace Library on 18 June 2009.
Members of eight churches in the Soul in Northolt and Greenford network staged the free event on Northolt Village's Clocktower Green to celebrate the Feast of Pentecost, which marks the birth of the Christian church.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is urging churches to use Environment Sunday (7 June) to pray for the planet and campaign for climate change in the run up to the important UN talks later this year in Copenhagen.
Sunday Jewoola is one of two archdeacons from the Diocese of Ife in Nigeria currently in London for a three month stay at the invitation of Bishop Richard.
The completion of Islington’s new Church of England Academy has been marked with a special service attended by the Bishop of London.
The official re-opening of the restored St George's Gardens was marked by a free family fun day on Sunday 31 May organised by Tower Hamlets Council’s Community Park Rangers and attended by 300 people. The first ever closed churchyard to be turned into public green space, the gardens provide a beautiful setting for St George in the East, one of six Hawksmoor churches in London.
A garden at the front of St Mellitus Church, Hanwell, has been developed with the help of the local community.
The Archbishop of Canterbury will join the Bishops of Chelmsford, London, Tunbridge and Southwark and representatives from 120 parishes across London at a series of events on 1st June to launch the Greater London Presence and Engagement Network (PEN).
Elections of members of the House of Clergy and House of Laity of the London Diocesan Synod are shortly due to take place.
The Revd Dr Giles Fraser, currently Vicar of Putney in the Diocese of Southwark, is to be the next Canon Chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral.
David Shreeve, the Church of England’s Environment Adviser, has been selected as one of the 16 members of the new Third Sector Task Force on climate change, the environment and sustainable development.
The Bishop of London recently led an Anglican delegation to Greece to further relations between the Church of England and the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece.
A new website launched by the Church of England today marks a groundbreaking initiative to identify the distinctive values that make Christian schools popular with parents and students, and promote ways of living out those values in the day-to-day activities of a busy school environment.