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Resignations and retirements

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01 June 2018

DEKKER. The Revd Denise Dekker, house-for-duty Assistant Curate (Associate Minister) in the Caludon Team Ministry, Coventry (Coventry).

FEATHERSTONE. The Revd Andrew Featherstone, Canon Chancellor of Wells Cathedral (Bath & Wells): 30 June.

GARDNER. The Revd Stephanie Gardner, NS Assistant Curate of Beeding and Bramber with Botolphs (Chichester).

HOLDING. The Revd Kenneth Holding, house-for-duty Priest-in-Charge of Willerby with Ganton and Folkton (York).

JAMES. The Revd Jeremy James, Vicar of Wadhurst and of Tidebrook and Priest-in-Charge of Stonegate, and Hon. Canon and of Chichester Cathedral (Chichester), becoming Canon Emeritus.

LODGE. The Revd Mary Lodge, OLM (Associate Minister) of Budbrooke (Coventry).

MacLEAN. The Revd Lawrence MacLean, Priest-in-Charge of St Andrew’s, Hove, and Vicar of St Barnabas’s and St Agnes’s, Hove, and Diocesan Adviser on Sustainable Development and Funding (Chichester).

O’BRIEN. The Revd Kevin O’Brien, Rural Dean of Hurst, remaining Vicar of St John the Evangelist, Burgess Hill (Chichester).

RATHBONE. The Revd Isobel Rathbone, Hon. Priest-in-Charge of Batheaston (Bath & Wells): 24 June.

RICHARDS. The Revd Mischa Richards, NS Assistant Curate of St Michael and All Angels with St Paul, Brighton (Chichester).

SAWYER. The Revd Frank Sawyer, Chaplain of Greater Lisbon, Portugal (Europe): 30 June 2019.

SELLERS. The Revd Rosalind Sellers, NSM (Associate Priest) of Puriton and Pawlett (Bath & Wells): 30 June.

SMITH. The Revd Esther Smith, Assistant Curate (Interim Minister) of Combe with Monkton Combe and South Stoke (Bath & Wells): 30 June.

WOLFENDEN. The Revd Peter Wolfenden, house-for-duty Priest-in-Charge of Ovingdean (Chichester).

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