One of our Wakefield area churches is going to be celebrating one of their former curates, the writer of the hymn ‘Onward Christian Soldiers’.

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One of our clergy has raised some £2000 for our parishes with a 75 mile sponsored journey to mark the diocese’s 10th anniversary.

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Today we pray for Coley in the Huddersfield area. We pray for the church of Coley St John the Baptist.

📷: Alexander P Kapp

Have you seen the article on Sabine Baring-Gould by local artist Richard Bell in this month’s The Yorkshire Dalesman magazine magazine? By coincidence you can also read a fascinating article about Nick Baines marking the 10th anniversary of Diocese of Leeds #horbury #horbury bridge #wakefield #sbg100

Our Bradford Mission Apprentices and Leeds & Harrogate Interns, all part of our Diocesan Internship Programme, enjoyed a great start to their summer term thanks to Bishop Nick’s invitation to a lunch at Hollin House recently.

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One of our Ripon area priests is going to be walking some 160 miles to raise money for his churchyard and support his local fell rescue group.

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Today we pray for Cleckheaton in the Huddersfield area. We pray for all the churches including Cleckheaton St John the Evangelist, Cleckheaton St Luke and Cleckheaton Whitechapel.

📷: Stephen Armstrong

Our Prayer Diaries are here 👉 bit.ly/PDLeeds

Hear from Bishop Toby with the next in our series of 50 Daily Devotions, where people in the diocese and beyond are receiving a daily email with stories, reflections, prayers and more.

Watch Bishop Toby's reflection here 👀 youtu.be/lXW-5LxgpiA

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Give thanks for our Retired Clergy and those with Permission to Officiate, for the invaluable support they give to parishes across the Diocese of Leeds.

Br Jean-Patrick of ⁦Taizé⁩ and +Smitha of ⁦Diocese of Leeds⁩ at ⁦Wakefield Cathedral⁩ telling us about the forthcoming pilgrimage (Aug 17-26) - email [email protected] for details and bookings.
(I’ll be going, but don’t let that put you off…)

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Today we pray for Clayton in the Bradford area. We pray for the church of Clayton St John the Baptist.

📷: Peter Wood

Bradford Cathedral will be marking the 30th anniversary of the ordination of women at a special service on Saturday, May 4.

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Today we pray for Clapham with Keasden and Austwick in the Ripon area. We pray for all the churches including Austwick The Epiphany, Clapham St James, Eldroth Chapel and Keasden St Matthew.

📷: Philip Platt

As well as marking our 10th anniversary, last Sunday was Vocations Sunday. As our curates from 2023 approach the end of their first year of ordained ministry, hear from some of them about their year, their journey and their training.

Watch it here 👀 youtu.be/lNvCkeolsn4

The Rt Revd Smitha Prasadam, Bishop of Huddersfield, will be leading a pilgrimage to Taizé this summer, and Archbishop of York will join pilgrims for part of their journey.

Learn more by watching a video with Bishop Smitha and the Archbishop here 👀 youtu.be/RTr17LXk9f8

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Today we pray for Chapelthorpe and Woolley with West Bretton in the Wakefield area. We pray for all the churches including Chapelthorpe St James, West Bretton The Church in West Bretton and Woolley St Peter.

📷: JThomas

To help us mark our diocesan 10th anniversary, Archbishop of York visited our diocese from Friday, April 19 to Sunday, April 21, and saw people and places all across the diocese. Here's just a taste of what he got up to!

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Today we pray for Chapel Allerton in the Leeds area. We pray for the church of Chapel Allerton St Matthew.

📷: Stanley Walker

The whole diocese of Leeds welcomed the Archbishop of York on a missional tour that helped launch our 10th anniversary year.

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Powerful session with the Archbishop of York Archbishop of York & Bishop Smitha of #Huddersfield University of Huddersfield #JoCox Centre this wkend, part of the 10yr celebrations of Diocese of Leeds Lots to think about inc. the importance of reflection, ‘need v greed’ & the dangers of division🙏🏻