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Appointments

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28 February 2025

CANT. The Revd Daniel Cant, Assistant Curate of Colchester New Town and the Hythe (Chelmsford), to be Rector of Bacton with Wyverstone, Cotton and Old Newton, and Wickham Skeith (St Edmundsbury & Ipswich).

CEARNS. The Revd Edward Cearns, NS Assistant Curate of St Clement’s, Cambridge, now NS Assistant Curate of St Benedict’s, Cambridge (Ely).

CHESHIRE. The Revd Lauren Cheshire, Assistant Curate of Andover, to be Vicar of Marchwood and Eling (Winchester).

CUFF. The Revd Dr Simon Cuff, Vicar of St Peter’s, de Beauvoir Town, to be Rector of St Mary le Bow with St Pancras Soper Lane, All Hallows Honey Lane, All Hallows Bread Street, St John the Evangelist Watling Street, St Augustine with St Faith under St Paul’s and St Mildred Bread Street with St Margaret Moyses, London (London).

DIGGINS. The Revd Glyn Diggins, formerly Vicar of Malton and Old Malton, to be Rector of Brayton (York).

DOBLE. The Revd Dominic Doble, Priest-in-Charge of Heveningham with Ubbeston, Huntingfield and Cookley, to be Rector, remaining Team Rector in the Blyth Valley Team Ministry, and Rural Dean of Waveney and Blyth (St Edmundsbury & Ipswich).

GAYLE. The Revd Claudette Gayle, Assistant Curate in the Whitstable Team Ministry, to be Priest-in-Charge of Allington and St Peter’s, Maidstone, and of St Paul’s, Maidstone (Canterbury).

GILMORE. The Revd Dr Diane Gilmore, NS Assistant Curate of the Two Valleys Mission Community (Carlisle), to be also Chaplain of HM Prison Lancaster Farms (Blackburn).

GOLDING. The Revd Jeffrey Golding, Assistant Curate of Allenton and Shelton Lock, in Pride Park, Wilmorton, Allenton and Shelton Lock (Derby), now Priest-in-Charge.

HARPER. The Revd Gareth Harper, Assistant Curate of the Bay Church, Torbay (Bishop’s Mission Order) (Exeter), to be Assistant Curate (Associate Vicar) of St Andrew’s, Burgess Hill (Chichester).

HOBBS. The Revd Hayley Hobbs, Assistant Curate of Ashingdon with South Fambridge, Canewdon and Paglesham (Chelmsford), to be Vicar of Eye, Newborough and Thorney (Peterborough).

KAUNHOVEN. The Revd Anthony Kaunhoven, Vicar of Bakewell, Ashford in the Water with Sheldon and Rowsley, and Hon. Canon of Derby Cathedral, to be also Priest-in-Charge of St Giles’s, Longstone, in Longstone, Curbar and Stony Middleton (Derby).

KAY. The Revd Peter Kay, Assistant Curate (Life Events Minister) of St John the Evangelist with St Mary’s and the Mariner’s Club and Chapel, Goole (Sheffield), to be Vicar of the Hertford Benefice (York).

KELSEY. The Revd Tina Kelsey, Vicar of St Peter with St Martin, Edmonton, now also Edmonton Area Director of IME2 (London).

LEBEY. The Revd Captain Nicholas Lebey CA, Assistant Curate in the Tolworth, Hook and Surbiton Team Ministry, to be Team Vicar, with responsibility for St George’s, Tolworth (Southwark).

STOBART. The Revd Joanna Stobart, Vicar of Ilminster and Whitelackington and Area Dean of Somerset South (Bath & Wells) to be Chaplain to the Bishop of Exeter (Exeter).

WALES

ASKWITH. The Revd Ashleigh Askwith, Assistant Curate of Low Marple, of High Lane and of Werneth (Chester), to be Priest-in-Charge in the Aled Mission Area (St Asaph).

TOUT. The Revd James Tout, NS Assistant Curate (Associate Priest) in the Offa Mission Area, and Chaplain to the Archbishop of Wales, to be Priest-in-Charge in the Wrexham Mission Area (St Asaph).

AIR TRAINING CORPS

The following now Hon. Chaplains: the Revd Timothy Carter (Wrekin Squadron); the Revd Matthew Davis (Tredegar Squadron); the Revd Stephen Edge (Hartlepool Squadron); the Revd Genevieve Evans (Crieff Squadron); the Revd Peter Letson (Llandrindod Wells Squadron); the Revd Andrew Turner (Newquay Squadron).

LAY APPOINTMENT

SMEE. Helen Smee, Director of Frideswide Voices, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford (Oxford), to be Director of Music of Southwark Cathedral (Southwark).

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