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Welcome to Canterbury Diocese
Canterbury Diocese is the oldest diocese in England, stretching from Maidstone to Thanet, the Isle of Sheppey to the Romney Marsh. We have 350 miles of coastline with historic ports and seaside resorts, alongside rural communities, market towns and commuter-belt urban developments. Affluent areas often sit alongside pockets of major deprivation, offering an exciting and challenging mission context.
At the heart of all we do is a vision of transformation for ourselves and our communities: no one can encounter God and remain unchanged. In the Diocese of Canterbury, we want to increasingly become a Christian community transformed through encounter with Christ, growing and overflowing to transform and bless the families, homes and communities we serve: Changed Lives, Changing Lives.
The Most Revd & Rt Hon Justin Welby Archbishop of Canterbury |
The Rt Revd Dr Rose Hudson-Wilkin Bishop of Dover |
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News
Anniversary service for first women priests
Young leaders celebrated
New pilgrimage route celebrates royal Kentish women
Today's Prayer
Listening and Discerning: Disruptive hope
Alone … the only doubter in a room full of very convinced people … a locked room … and then, impossibly, Jesus is there. The events of Easter overturned Thomas’s assumptions about how things work. Easter offends the status quo and unseats our rational worldview. Easter’s gift to us is the hope that the way it’s always been isn’t necessarily the way it will always be.
Lord Jesus, may your willingness to walk through walls dispel our rigidity and resistance to change, that we might step towards your hope-filled future with courage and joy.
Prayer written by Lyndall Bywater - Diocesan Changing Lives Prayer Network Co-ordinator
Anglican Communion:
5th Sunday of Easter
The Church of Bangladesh
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