Desmond Tutu visits Olympic Park and pledges support for London 2012
Bishop of London launches 'Transforming Lives' appeal
Harmondsworth Vicar installed as Archdeacon in the Diocese of Ideato
City church marks Holocaust Memorial Day
JustShare debate highlights urgent climate issues
Transforming Lives: London Fairtrade Conference
Tercentenary celebrations for the City's only state school
Vicar swaps pulpit for pulling pints
Anniversary of ritualism riots marked at St George-in-the-East
Diocese marks the passing of a Pioneering Lay Minister
Bishop of London leads service of thanksgiving for newly restored Hammersmith Church
Historic organ's return heralded
Monsignor Graham Leonard, former Bishop of London
Thanks to apples and blackberries
Wake up with the CofE on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show
Preacher of Charterhouse retires
Vacancy in See Committee 2009 By-Elections
Fifth London Diocese Academy takes shape in Chelsea
St Michael's Highgate welcomes new curate
Brent Night Shelter Opens Doors to Homeless
The London 2012 team welcomed Archbishop Desmond Tutu to east London, who was given a tour of the Olympic Park site and expressed his belief that the London 2012 Games will inspire people across the world.
The Bishop of London has launched the Diocese of London's 2010 Lent Appeal at Old Ford Primary School in Tower Hamlets. The Bishop met with pupils at the school to talk to them about this year’s theme of transformation and to explain the importance of the appeal.
The Ven Amatu Onundu Christian-Iwuagwu, Vicar of St Mary the Virgin, Harmondsworth, has been installed as Archdeacon in the Diocese of Ideato, Nigeria.
St Margaret Pattens hosted a performance of the award-winning play And Then They Came For Me – Remembering the World of Anne Frank. The performance, which was packed with business and community leaders of all faiths and none, was followed by a Q&A session with Eva Schloss, Holocaust survivor, writer, grandmother and step sister of Anne Frank.
All Hallows-by-the-Tower hosted a lively JustShare debate on 26 January where the topic under discussion was 'Could the Recession Slow Down Climate Change?'.
John L. Bell of the Iona Community was the main speaker at the London Fairtrade Diocese Campaign’s 'Transforming Lives' conference at St Stephen's Westbourne Park.
The Bishop of London held a service at St Botolph's Church for Sir John Cass’s Church of England Primary School - the only state primary in the City of London.
Photo Credit: Richard Ward
In a job swap like no other, the Vicar of St Faith’s Church, Brentford, will work a Saturday night shift and the Landlord of the Lord Nelson, Lee Bartlett, will talk in the sermon slot in the Sunday service on 7 February.
The Archbishop of Canterbury visited St George-in-the-East on Wednesday, to mark the most intense period of the Ritualism Riots that occurred at the church 150 years ago, in 1859 and 1860.
Dora Lockett, the first ever woman Reader to be licensed in the Diocese, died on 16 January, aged 94. Her Funeral is on Wednesday 27th January at 12 noon at Holy Trinity Northwood, where she served throughout her ministry.
Staff and visitors to St Paul’s Hammersmith celebrated the completion of extensive restoration work to the building this weekend.
The Bishop of London led a special service at St George’s Church, Southall to mark the restoration of the historic church organ and the creation of new community facilities in the building.
Mgr Leonard died on 6 January. His funeral will take place at the Oxford Oratory on 21 January at 11.30am. The Bishop of London issued a statement in response to the news of the death.
The Revd Jonathan Osborne has been formally licensed as Senior Chaplain of the Metropolitan Police at a service held at St Paul's Cathedral.
The traditional annual Plow Monday service was given a modern twist at St Lawrence Jewry church next to Guildhall.
The Revd Rob Gillion took to the airwaves this morning to present the first ever Pause for Thought on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show on Radio 2.
The Bishop of London celebrated the Eucharist in the Chapel of Sutton’s Hospital in Charterhouse, and delivered the address, to mark the retirement of The Reverend Michael Stevens who had been Preacher of Charterhouse for almost ten years.
The Reverend Canon Martin Warner MA PhD, Canon Treasurer of St Paul’s Cathedral presided over his final service at St Paul’s Cathedral last night after being appointed by HM The Queen as the Suffragan Bishop of Whitby.
The Diocesan Synod met at King's College London on 12 December to discuss church growth, building on history, mission, finance and the environment.
Certain By-Elections to some of the Area Councils in the Diocese have commenced. Members of the churches in the appropriate Episcopal Area are invited to consider standing for election to their Area Council to take forward together our Christian life in each Area.
St Mary Magdalene Church on Holloway Road recently heard its fourth and final in a series of evening concerts to raise money for the church’s Paradise Project and the St Mary Magdalene Centre for Refugees and Asylum Seekers.
The Vacancy in See Committee meets when there is a vacancy in the See of London, i.e. should the post of Bishop of London become vacant. The Committee prepares a statement of the needs of the Diocese for consideration by the Crown Nominations Commission of the General Synod, and appoints a number of its members to represent the Diocese on the Commission.
The Bishop of London spoke yesterday at the Feeding the 5000 event at Trafalgar Square. At the event, lunch, made from food that would otherwise have been wasted, was served free to members of the public to highlight the problem of food waste and the many practical ways to solve it.
An innovative new Church of England Academy, being created in the heart of Chelsea reached a major milestone last week.
The Bishop of London, Dr Richard Chartres, ordained Dr Thomas Renz as the new curate of St Michael's Highgate on Sunday.
The Route 18 Brent Winter Shelter celebrated reopening its doors to Brent’s homeless with a special awareness raising event on Friday 4 December.
Bishop Pimen Llievski and HE Mrs Marija Efremova visited the Bishop of London earlier this week. They were joined by Fr Viktor Stojcev, who cares for the Macedonian Orthodox congregation of St Michael & All Angels that gathers at the Chapel of the House of St Barnabas in Soho.
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