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Resignations and retirements

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02 April 2026

BURNETT. The Revd Caroline Burnett, NS Assistant Priest of Guilsborough and Hollowell and Cold Ashby and Cottesbrooke with Great Creaton and Thornby and Ravensthorpe and Spratton (Peterborough): 30 April.

COBLEY. The Revd Irene Cobley, NS Assistant Priest of Cogenhoe and Great Houghton and Little Houghton with Brafield on the Green (Peterborough).

DAVIDSON. The Revd Stephen Davidson, Associate Team Rector in the North Lambeth Team Ministry (Southwark): 26 April.

GOODRIDGE. The Revd Elizabeth Goodridge, NS Assistant Priest of All Saints’, Kenley, and St Barnabas’s, Purley (Southwark): 30 June.

NOTT. The Revd Ian Nott, Assistant Curate of the Good Shepherd, Carshalton Beeches (Southwark): 14 July.

SOTONWA. The Revd Dr Oladapo Sotonwa, Chaplain to HM Prison Norwich and Hon. Canon of Ijebu, Nigeria (Ijebu, Nigeria): 3 October.

STEVENS. The Revd Andrew Stevens, Vicar of St Nicholas’s, Plumstead, and Hon. Canon of Southwark Cathedral (Southwark): 4 June.

STODDART. The Revd Hazel Stoddart, Chaplain of the University of Chester (Chester).

WELCH. The Revd Ian Welch, Rector of St Andrew’s with St Alban’s, Mottingham (Southwark): 30 April.


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