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Resignations and retirements

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07 August 2020

ASHWORTH. The Revd Graham Ash­­­worth, NS Assistant Curate (Associate Priest) of St Ambrose’s, Leyland (Blackburn): 30 September.

BLEWETT. The Revd Martin Blewett, Assistant Diocesan Director of Ordinands, remaining Rector of the Ten Lamps Group (Bath & Wells).

COLLINGWOOD. The Revd Dr Christopher Collingwood, Canon Chan­­­­cellor of York Minster (York): 31 August.

COX. The Revd Dr Simon Cox, Rec­tor of Bispham, Priest-in-Charge of St Anne’s, Copp, with Inskip, temporary Assistant Archdeacon of Lancaster, and Hon. Canon of Blackburn Cathedral (Blackburn): 31 Au­­gust.

ELLIOTT de RIVEROL. The Revd Jennifer Elliott de Riverol, Rector of Brinton, Briningham, Hunworth, Stody, Swanton Novers and Thor­n­age (Norwich): 31 August.

HEWLETT. The Revd Dr David Hewlett, Principal of the Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, and Hon. Canon of Birmingham Cathedral (Birmingham), now Canon Emeritus. 

RICHARDSON. The Revd Katherine Richardson, NS Assistant Curate (Associate Priest) of Cirencester (Gloucester).

RYCRAFT. The Revd Rosemary Rycraft, Priest-in-Charge of Dalham, Gazeley, Higham, Kentford and Moul­­­ton (St Edmundsbury & Ips­wich): 31 August.

SIBANDA. The Revd Isaac Sibanda, Assistant Curate of Heartsease and of Thorpe Hamlet (Norwich).

SMITH. The Revd Andrew Smith, Rector of Fetcham (Guildford): 15 November.

STEPHENSON. The Revd Dr Judith Stephenson, Chaplain of HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs.

SYMS. The Revd Richard Syms, NS Assistant Curate of Covent Garden (London).

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