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Official Twitter feed for the 10th Bishop of Southwark, The Rt Revd Christopher Chessun. Account managed by @SouthwarkCofE Communications.

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We will be welcoming Archbishop @JustinWelby who will preside at the #BHM celebrations @Southwarkcathed as part of a 3 day mission weekend spending time with parishes and church leaders, praying together and focusing on sharing faith, deepening discipleship and growing younger.
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Our Black History Month thanksgiving eucharist @Southwarkcathed is on Saturday 5th October at 1030am. All are welcome: @SouthwarkCofE #BlackHistoryMonth
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Please join me in praying for the well-being and swift release of Laylan Nasser, a member of St Peterโ€™s Anglican Church in Birzeit, in the West Bank, snatched from her family by Israeli troops at 4am on Saturday without giving any reason or saying where she is being held
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I support the assessment of the Archbishop of York that the Illegal Migration Bill is โ€˜cruelty without purposeโ€™. We look to all Governments to show compassion and care to the most vulnerable and I am glad religious leaders are speaking out on this
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Illegal migration bill is โ€˜cruelty without purposeโ€™, says Archbishop of York

Jewish leaders join Stephen Cottrell in urging government not to penalise โ€˜worldโ€™s most vulnerableโ€™ as charities and businesses voice horror in open letter

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I heartily welcome the PM's confirmation today that 'the Rwanda Policy is dead and buried'-I hope the needs of vulnerable people caught by the Illegal Migration Act will now be addressed, safe&legal routes opened up, international cooperation furthered and criminal gangs tackled.
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Tempted to give @HodgeTheCat my licence to preach but perhaps best he remains an attentive listener @Southwarkcathed @deansouthwark
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Waiting for the bride with PC Wayne Marques survivor and hero of London Bridge terror attack marrying today his partner Suzana @Southwarkcathed great gladness and joy. Thanks be to God @metpoliceuk @BTPLondon
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โ€˜Unless we provide a safe route we are complicit with the people smugglersโ€™ Please listen HMG and please act
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Mike Galsworthy ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
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Great speech by John Kerr in House of Lords. The UK is not a popular destination for refugees. Weโ€™re way down the list. The dangerous sea route is the only refugee route now our govt have shut safe routes. The facts do not support govt case for cruelty.
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Ref. to Lambeth 1.10 needs to be edited out of #LambethCalls . We give thanks for God-given diversity @AnglicanWorld 24 years on all dioceses @churchofengland acknowledge same sex unions in the form of civil partnerships while respecting dignity and conscience #UnityinChristalone
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It is with great sadness that I share the news of the death of The Rt Revd Dr Bishop Karowei Dorgu. Bishop Karowei died peacefully after a long struggle with his health on Friday 8 September in the presence of his family at Kingโ€™s College Hospital.๐Ÿงต
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This wonderfully restored Mosaic from The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem depicting Saint Thomas encountering the risen Jesus in the upper room comes with joyful Easter greetings to our brothers and sisters in the Orthodox family of Churches now celebrating the great Feast
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Meanwhile @HodgeTheCat decided to do his own Sunday afternoon thing and slumber on my bag in the Sacristy
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Welcoming Our new Precentor @SouthwarkCofE and promising to cherish Kathryn @Southwarkcathed as she was cherished @CofE_Cov
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Foreign aid: I am, for the first time, asking โฆ @SouthwarkCofE โฉ MPs to vote in a specific way in the House of Commons. Honouring the 0.7% GDP commitment is a matter of high moral order #GlobalBritain
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Foreign aid: More Conservative rebels join bid to reverse cuts

Rebel Tory MPs believe they have enough support to bring spending back to 0.7% of national income.

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Please watch this very moving video produced by Tom Holmes, son of Peter, one our parish priests @SouthwarkCofE in intensive care with the Coronavirus and please pray for Peter and his family. Lord have mercy #StayHomeProtecttheNHSSaveLives #GoodFriday
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Thank you Sadiq @MayorofLondon for honouring the memory of Ella Kissi-Debrah, who died, aged nine, after an acute asthma attack in south London on 15 February 2013. Cleaner air will benefit many and save lives @SouthwarkCofE - we salute you
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
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The decision to expand ULEZ was a difficult but vital one. Iโ€™m simply not willing to delay or water down this vital health and green policy that will help save thousands of lives. Today I announced more help for Londoners to retrofit or scrap their non-compliant vehicles:
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Joyful installations @Southwarkcathed @markrusselluk @childrensociety as Lay Canon Fr Mark Williams @SJDKennington as Honorary Canon and Jonathan Sedgwick as Archdeacon of Southwark with their inspirational gifts returning to Vestry to find @HodgeTheCat tucked cozily into my bag
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Saying Morning Prayer in Jerusalem in sight of the Mount of Olives on Ascension Day after a night of further disturbances struck by the powerful words of Psalm 110: on the holy mountain, from the womb of the dawn the dew of your new birth is upon you. Please pray for +Hosam today
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Dean of Southwark designate Mark Oakley under the approving gaze of William Shakespeare & much jubilation @Southwarkcathed as the announcement is made. Grateful to all those who worked with me on appointing Mark and commending him to your prayers @SouthwarkCofE @churchofengland
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โฆ @CanonOakley โฉ now joyfully installed as Dean โฆ @Southwarkcathed โฉ supported by colleagues and friends from โฆ @stjohnscam โฉ and the wider communities served by โฆ @SouthwarkCofE โฉ - welcome!
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It was a long night but each and every one of the groups of amendments attracted informed and telling verbal support from across the House with the Government Minister alone defending the indefensible! Worth reading #Hansard @churchstate
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Richard Chapman
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The House of Lords sat throughout the night, only rising at 4.15am, to give essential scrutiny to Govt's Illegal Migration Bill, on such issues as detention of children & pregnant women. @BishopSouthwark spoke after 2am, supporting amendments on vulnerable people in detention.
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Bishop of Southwark
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Bishop Karowei now at home and making good progress with Mosun as well as 15 month old JJ - a great character - and his parents - let us pray for Bishop Karowei for a good recovery as he will be praying for us and all the parishes in the Woolwich Episcopal Area @SouthwarkCofE
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3 years
This is a low point in our parliamentary story in failing to uphold legally endorsed overseas aid commitments. These cuts even if โ€˜temporaryโ€™ export the cost of the pandemic to the worldโ€™s most vulnerable communities until reversed #PromisesMadeShouldBeKept
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The Church of England
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3 years
โ€œI am very disappointed that Parliament has not seen fit to honour this countryโ€™s laudable promise, enshrined in law, to devote 0.7 percent of GNI to aid." - @BishopWorcester Read the full response from the lead bishop for international development ๐Ÿ‘‡
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The legislation proposed by Ghana is unacceptable. It will instil fear & mistrust. It proposes to imprison LGBT+ people for being who they are and goes against the love that God calls us to have for each other and has for us all. My prayers are with Ghanaโ€™s LGBT+ community.
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Portsmouth Diocese
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3 years
The senior staff of the Diocese of Portsmouth have issued a statement opposing the Ghanaian bill threatening to imprison LGBT+ people for being who they are. They are asking for urgent talks with the Anglican bishops in Ghana who have supported this bill:
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Giving thanks for my 40 years as a priest at the Cathedral lunchtime Eucharist. Glad to be joined by SubDean @michaelrawson62 Dean Emeritus @AndrewPNunn and Fr Steve Hall respectively 34&40 years as priests and 40 years a Deacon - all four today #FaithfulistheOnewhocalls
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Pope Francis greets Anglican delegation at canonisation of John Henry Newman @churchofengland @SouthwarkCofE @will__adam #coradcorloquitur
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Amid all the unrest which continues an oasis of joyful rejoicing for Hosam Naoumโ€™s #AscensionDay installation at St Georgeโ€™s Cathedral as Anglican Archbishop in Jerusalem - honoured to represent and read message @JustinWelby @AnglicanWorld #PraiseGodfromwhomallBlessingsFlow
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My Easter Day Sermon: Resurrection life compels us to reach out to others in faith hope and love. The Archbishop of Canterbury @JustinWelby asks us to pray today for journalists including Evan Gershkovich @WSJ who has been detained in Russia
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The PMโ€™s words over the weekend about generous provision for refugees fleeing Ukraine will remain rhetoric unless matched by immediate changes in HMG policy to lift remaining visa restrictions #SafePassage #PrayingforUkraine โฆ @SouthwarkCofE โฉ
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PM announces further humanitarian aid to Ukraine

Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces ยฃ40 million of further humanitarian aid to Ukraine.

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A very moving vigil of prayer @Southwarkcathed with tributes and songs at the reception of the body of our dearly beloved brother, Bishop Woyin Karowei Dorgu, on the eve of his Funeral Eucharist: May Christ who called you welcome you. May you rest in peace and rise in glory
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Bishop of Southwark
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2 years
New priests for the Kingdom and the service of Godโ€™s people - please pray that their joy will abound! @AllSaintsK โฆ @BishopRCheetham โฉ โฆโฉ @SouthwarkCofE โฉ โฆ @churchofengland โฉ
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Thankful to remain in the city of Jerusalem in these days between Ascension and Pentecost to pray for peace with justice and an end to conflict here and in surrounding region. Honoured to have audience with HB Theophilos at the Greek Patriarchate this morning #ThyKingdomCome2021
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Great joy as Bishop Angaelos is enthroned as Coptic Orthodox Bishop for London
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2 years
Please pray in thanksgiving for these 22 fine candidates to be ordained priest tomorrow DV (now released from the silence of their retreat!) and for 2 of their cohort whose ordinations covid postpones until Michaelmas - may the Lord prosper what they offer โฆ @SouthwarkCofE โฉ
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2 years
Today we heard in the House of Lords of the blockade of the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh and of the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe. Those at risk include 30000 children. Pray for action and the people of NK @ar_churchuk @churchofengland @DavidAltonHL @BishopAngaelos
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Enjoying a Saturday morning cappuccino just behind the columns of St Peter's Square - cafรฉ strongly recommended - en route to nearby hostel for homeless people given by Pope Francis to the S Egidio Community - awaiting @SJDKennington companions but not complaining
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Great to see Dr Sue Clarke, much loved priest @SouthwarkCofE come to the aid of @SadiqKhan our Mayor and good friend #StaySafe #ProtecttheNHS #SaveLives
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Sadiq Khan
@SadiqKhan
4 years
Love that as a Mayor of Islamic faith, I received my COVID vaccine at a local church, from Reverend Dr Sue Clarke, who came out of retirement to volunteer as a vaccinator. This is London: our diversity is our strength.
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We remember with thankful hearts Deepthi Wickremasinghe and pray for her family on the day of her funeral as well as her sending parish @StJohnsEDulwich and @StCsWalworth @SouthwarkCofE where she was serving her curacy. May light perpetual shine upon her #AlleluiaChristisRisen
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Delighted to be here in Jerusalem with Archbishop Hosam Naoum and Dean Richard Sewell @sgcjerusalem to hear the experience of Palestinian Christians and the challenges facing the Diocese - acknowledging the pain and the grief which is palpable. @SouthwarkCofE @churchofengland
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3 years
Much gratitude to @KingsCollegeNHS and those who are looking after me here as an inpatient also to the devoted #ChaplaincyTeam who will bring me The Sacrament when I make my Communion this morning #PrayIngForOurNHS
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Southwark Diocese
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3 years
#Pray for Kingโ€™s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Alfred Bunyan (Head of Chaplaincy); George Ochola (Chaplain) @KingsCollegeNHS and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust: Cameron Langlands (Church of Scotland) (Lead Chaplain)
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I was glad to join the Dean in the Deanery to say Evening Prayer together at 6 and pray for the victims and those affected or traumatised by this latest terrorist incident at London Bridge as well as our police and emergency services, local community and Borough Market traders
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5 years
Please pray for all of those affected by today's events. We know that, for many, it has rekindled memories of the horrors of 3 June 2017.
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Pray for our @SouthwarkCofE deacons to be on the eve of their ordination @Southwarkcathed now relaxing at Wychcroft - thankful that it has been possible to have this time in retreat #JustPray
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As we make our preparations for the Requiem Eucharist at noon, Years five and six of Bouchers - a school which Bishop Karowei loved so much have come to sing and express their gratitude for him
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So glad to ordain Fr Joe to the priesthood at St Christopherโ€™s Walworth so close to Christmas! #ComfortAndJoy
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#LambethConference2022 Not very good at selfies but glad to have met up in registration centre with +Erick of Manicaland and +Farai of Harare and their wives. Amazingly helpful welcoming team - things are looking up! #CompanionsandFriends @AnglicanWorld
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How good is the God we serve! I commend these wonderful sixteen deacons to your prayers โฆ @SouthwarkCofE โฉ โฆ @Southwarkcathed โฉ
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Delighted to preside this morning in the wonderful parish of All Saints Upper Norwood @SouthwarkCofE working effectively with asylum seekers and refugees - fine people looking to their futures in hope. Suella Braverman you are welcome to visit & see a good story @churchofengland
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In heartfelt remembrance of victims, their families and gratitude for those who came to their aid #NotForgotten #LondonBridgeTerrorAttacks20172019
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News: Four years on, Southwark remembers the victims of the London Bridge and Borough terror attacks
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Sunday 8th September is the first year's mind of Bishop Woyin Karowei Dorgu, Bishop of Woolwich @SouthwarkCofE 2017-2023. We give thanks for the light of Christ that shone so brightly through him and continue to hold his family in our prayers. Grant unto him, O Lord, eternal rest
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What a beautiful afternoon to be at a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace - and not the only bishop! Everyone delighted to see His Majesty The King resume royal duties
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We give thanks @SouthwarkCofE for the life and ministry of Desmond Mpilo Tutu, Priest, Bishop and Archbishop, praying for his family and all those gathering in Cape Town today with Archbishop Thabo Makgoba for the Requiem Mass @AnglicanWorld #RestinPeaceandRiseinGlory
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@Oikoumene
World Council of Churches (WCC)
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3 years
The funeral service of the late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu livestreamed here: 1 January at 9am CET
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A very warm welcome to eighteen new Curates whose public ministry in @SouthwarkCofE was inaugurated today in a joyful Zoom service; looking forward to Ordaining them to the Diaconate in @Southwarkcathed later in the year. A recording of today's service will soon be circulated
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2 years
With my RC counterparts I have written urging HMG to reassert the long-standing position that the British Embassy remains in Tel Aviv pending a negotiated settlement on the status of the Holy City. Heads of the Churches there plead that this is vital for the peace of Jerusalem
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Behold, the Bishop Designate of Croydon, Dr Rosemarie Mallett, following the 10 Downing Street announcement that Her Majesty The Queen has approved Rosemarieโ€™s nomination, commending her to prayer @SouthwarkCofE and beyond with a full day of engagements ahead #Rejoiceandbeglad
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This is not the whole picture. Bonds of friendship, fellowship and communion are the real story at #LambethConference2022 and more widely @AnglicanWorld We need to look beneath the surface to see the ongoing work of the Spirit - honesty, truth, beauty and #UnityinChristalone
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A joy to commission Rob Wickham as an Honorary Assistant Bishop @SouthwarkCofE @StPetersVxhall a wonderful inner urban church and nearest to @churchurbanfund at The Foundry - praying for Godโ€™s blessing on +Rob and the work for urban mission and renewal
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Bishops on the move in Amritsar @BishopSouthwark @BishopAmritsar #SouthwarkDiocesanPilgrimageNorthIndia
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When the saints go marching in - Bishop Karowei accompanying on the drums at St Christopherโ€™s Walworth Patronal 2017 and Video of his Funeral Eucharist โฆ @Southwarkcathed โฉ
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God willing, this will be the new Episcopal team @SouthwarkCofE with the addition of @AlCutting and I am delighted to announce that I have appointed Dr Chigor Chike to be the next Archdeacon of Lewisham & Greenwich. Please pray for Alistair and Chigor and their families
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Bishop of Southwark
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3 years
Many happy returns Andrew โฆ @deansouthwark โฉ โฆ @Southwarkcathed โฉ โฆ @SouthwarkCofE โฉ
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Bishop @RosemarieMallet and I are in the departure lounge @HeathrowAirport flying out shortly to Barbados for the 200th anniversary celebrations of the Anglican Diocese and to sign a Companion Covenant between our two dioceses @SouthwarkCofE #AnglicanDioceseofBarbados
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
3 years
Archbishop Hosam Naoum calls for an immediate ceasefire, an end to the violence & for a just and lasting peace. He appeals for emergency medical funds for Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza & urgent prayer for justice and peace in the Holy Land. Read full statement
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
1 year
Though our hearts were heavy there was great joy and thanksgiving at Suzie and Timi Dorguโ€™s nuptial celebrations @ccspits in gloriously renewed Christ Church Spitalfields - God is love and those who live in God live in love and God lives in them (1 John 4.16) - a few more photos
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Bishop of Southwark
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1 year
Hard to bid farewell to Andrew who has given his all @deansouthwark but much for which we give thanks to God especially today - forty years on from his deaconing. If you missed Choral Evensong and tributes @Southwarkcathed on Saturday follow the link here:
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
4 years
Please pray for our Ordinands to be made Deacons to serve in their parishes @SouthwarkCofE where they have been exercising public ministry since the end of June and good to be with them today at Wychcroft along with sheep safely grazing in surrounding fields! #JustPray
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
5 months
Glad to have begun the day with an hour of Prayer before the Blessed Sacrament in the Chapel at Bishop's House at the request of @scpeurope on the Feast of Corpus Christi: Blessed be Jesus in the most holy sacrament of the altar
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
3 years
Mass in my Chapel on the Feast of St Antony of Egypt - the 11th anniversary of my confirmation of election as @BishopSouthwark at which Rowan Williams said I would need to find my desert space @SouthwarkCofE - lockdowns and 3 lots of surgery have helped! #InEverythingGiveThanks
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
7 years
This grave injustice to #Windrush generation is causing significant suffering. Raising awareness by signing the petition is an important first step in changing hearts and minds: people of good will can and should speak out. We ask for a change in Government policy.
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St John the Divine
@SJDKennington
7 years
Historic injustice to #windrush generation. Please sign this petition for debate. Affecting thousands in our community @SouthwarkCofE @c_of_e
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
4 years
Very grateful to @JustinWelby for saying what needs to be said. #WeAreAllOneInChrist
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Archbishop of Canterbury
@JustinWelby
4 years
All baptised, believing and faithful people, regardless of sexual orientation, are full members of the Body of Christ. I condemn the language recently used by the Primate of Nigeria. My full statement:
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5 years
24 newly Ordained Deacons in @SouthwarkCofE with the Bishops of Kingston, Croydon, and Woolwich, as well as some of those who have helped prepare them for this moment including The Very Revd Dr David Hoyle #newrevs #Ordinations2019 โฆ @churchofengland โฉ - amid great rejoicing
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
3 years
Wonderful to be here with Richard Sewell @sgcjerusalem among friends bringing @SouthwarkCofE greetings and represent @JustinWelby at #AscensionDay installation of Hosam Naoum as Anglican Archbishop in Jerusalem praying for justice with peace for all the peoples of these lands
@sgcjerusalem
Richard Sewell
@sgcjerusalem
3 years
Delighted to inform @Southwarkcathed and all @SouthwarkCofE that the Bishop Has Landed safely and is happily settling into St Georgeโ€™s College and the Cathedral Close. We are so pleased to have @BishopSouthwark with us in Jerusalem for the installation of our new Archbishop.
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
3 years
Our very fine new priests @SouthwarkCofE ordained today in their Episcopal Areas by @BishopofCroydon @BishopRCheetham and @BishopWoolwich emerging from self-isolation after many months. We give thanks and pray for all our clergy #TheOneWhoCallsIsFaithful
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
5 years
Thirty six years on from our respective deaconings and many blessings to give thanks for along the way - thanks be to God @SouthwarkCofE @deansouthwark
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
10 months
I find Midnight Mass to be one of the most special and powerful services of the year as we bring all our longings, hopes and fears to the manger, where they are met and transformed by Christ. Happy Christmas to you all! @SouthwarkCathed @SouthwarkCofE #FirstEucharistofChristmas
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
2 years
Pray for #TheCollegeofBishops on this cold and frosty morning at High Leigh @churchofengland
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
5 months
A great joy to return from the St Thomas pilgrimage in India to preside, preach and lead the May devotions with procession @SMBSLondon - where nothing is done by halves, including the mitres produced for visiting bishops #MarysMonthofMay
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A very beautiful and moving Easter Vigil with Baptism and Confirmation @Southwarkcathed beginning with the lighting of the Fire and everything under the light of the Paschal Candle. Alleluia! Christ is risen!
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
1 year
Terrible news breaking of many hundreds dead and injured following a direct hit at Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza owned by the Anglican Diocese in Jerusalem-this cannot continue - โ€˜ the laws of war must guide Israelโ€™s response to Hamas atrocitiesโ€™ Lord Neuberger et al @AnglicanWorld
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
4 years
As we prepare for a second lockdown @SouthwarkCofE pray God we will be unceasing in serving the people of South London and East Surrey holding fast to the Faith, Hope and Love we have in Jesus Christ
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
5 years
Our mother church @SouthwarkCofE emptied of chairs and open for private prayer - serene and beautiful. Have found it helpful to pray this weekโ€™s collect with its focus on walking in the way of the cross and finding it non other than the way of life and peace
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
5 years
Rejoice, Bishop Karowei now back at the Staff Meeting table after several weeks of convalescence - continuing to be held in our prayers @SouthwarkCofE
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
5 years
24 Deacons to be @SouthwarkCofE full of joyful expectation on the eve of Ordination and grateful to the Very Revd Dr David Hoyle for guiding them through their retreat #newrevs #Ordinations2019 @churchofengland
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
1 year
Heartfelt tributes to @deansouthwark hosted by @livingbankside and @boroughmarket giving thanks for the strength of community relations and all that Andrew has given as priest, Dean and friend @AmirEden1993 @SimonHughes @SunilChopraM @peterjohn6 @Southwarkcathed @lb_southwark
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
3 months
Behold the new Bishop of Woolwich, the Episcopal Team @SouthwarkCofE Civic Dignatories giving thanks for the blessings of this day #FeastofStThomastheApostle2024
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
3 years
#PrayingforUkraine before a lighted candle and the beautiful Icon of the Transfiguration (Ivanka Demchuk) with my colleagues in the Chapel at Wychcroft in solidarity with @DioceseinEurope which includes Ukraine and Russia #PeacewithJustice #SovereignUkraine @SouthwarkCofE
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
1 year
Pray for the beleaguered people of Nagorno-Karabakh under siege and denied humanitarian aid - even the International Red Cross @ifrc are prevented from operating there @ar_churchuk
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
4 years
Deo gratias and a real privilege to serve in this wonderful diocese @SouthwarkCofE
@AndrewPNunn
Andrew Nunn
@AndrewPNunn
4 years
Congratulations from the community @Southwarkcathed to @BishopSouthwark on the 10th anniversary of his enthronement as our bishop. May God continue to bless his ministry @SouthwarkCofE and wider.
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
2 years
A great joy to receive the vows of Brother Michael Jacob SSF supported by family, community and friends at his #LifeProfession in the Chapel at Alnmouth Friary with stunning views of the Northumbrian Coast sustained by the prayers of all the #NorthernSaints @michaeljacob87
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
11 months
A privilege to be with other Lords Spiritual for the first Kingโ€™s Speech in over seventy years - an historic moment under the statues of those who witnessed Magna Carta- continuity and reform at the heart of our constitutional story @churchstate
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
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Please pray for all those to be ordained priest this weekend in โฆ @SouthwarkCofE โฉ and throughout โฆ @churchofengland โฉ - remembering also those whose Holy Orders are to be received - and for all who love and support them. โ€˜The One who calls is faithfulโ€™
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
2 years
โฆ @SouthwarkCofE โฉ College of Bishops Petertide 2022 โฆ @BishopRCheetham โฉ โฆ @woolbishop โฉ โฆ @RosemarieMallet โฉ - Bishop of Croydon - the newest member of the Episcopal Team. Pray for us as we shall pray for you #ServingthePeopleofSouthLondonandEastSurrey
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
4 years
O Morning Star, splendour of light eternal and sun of righteousness: Come and enlighten those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death. cf Malachi 4. 2
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
3 years
Desmond Tutuโ€™s fearless naming of all injustice wherever it is found will I pray be a living legacy which will continue to impact on Anglican identity and witness with renewed vigour following his death #RestinPeaceandRiseinGlory @SouthwarkCofE @churchofengland @AnglicanWorld
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Anglican Media SA
@AnglicanMediaSA
3 years
"It is with great sadness that I have to announce that our dearly beloved Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town โ€“ and the 1984 Nobel Peace laureate โ€“ Desmond Mpilo Tutu died a short while ago at the age of 90." - Archbishop Thabo Makgoba of Cape Town
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
1 year
A very moving Service of Songs this evening @Southwarkcathed led by @FrStanley2 giving thanks for Bishop Karoweiโ€™s radiant love of God and people with tributes from his twin sister Collette and nephew Ifeanyi โ€˜Do not lag in zeal, be ardent in spirit, serve the Lordโ€™ (Romans 12)
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
1 year
A joyful celebration of lay ministry as I commissioned and licensed 14 ministers this evening โฆ @SouthwarkCofE โฉ - 3 readers, 1 pastoral minister and 3 pastoral auxiliaries, 1 children and family worker, 4 lay pioneers, and 2 โฆ @ChurchArmy โฉ evangelists. God is good!
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
2 years
Grateful for the ministry of hospital chaplains across โฆ @SouthwarkCofE โฉ and very pleased to welcome them to Bishopโ€™s House for afternoon tea! Hold them in your prayers with thanksgiving, and all who work in the #NHS
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
4 years
A great joy to pronounce the nuptial blessing on Amanda Hill and David Adamson @Southwarkcathed as they are joined together in holy matrimony with @deansouthwark preaching thankful that God lives in those who live in love #GodisLove
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
3 months
Day 2 #AnglicanDioceseofBarbados200 starts with a rainbow and early morning swim with @RosemarieMallet - the sea much warmer than Cornwall or even the Sea of Galilee! Now breakfast before an audience with the President of Barbados
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
4 months
It will be a joy tomorrow to ordain, God willing, 17 deacons โฆ @Southwarkcathed after a prayerful and stimulating retreat led by Bishop Christopher Lowson. Please pray for them, for those who support and love them, and for the parishes they will serve โฆ @SouthwarkCofE โฉ
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
2 years
With my GP Dr Wole Bolade who asked for prayers and a Blessing at his home in Croydon on his birthday - May Christ dwell in our hearts through faith as we are being rooted and grounded in love #GivingthanksfortheNHS
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
3 years
Thank you Archbishop Justin for opposing this unsafe Bill and having just said Compline struck by the deep reflection on our mortality in the appointed psalm (139) giving thanks that we are each โ€˜fearfully and wonderfully madeโ€™
@churchstate
Church of England in Parliament
@churchstate
3 years
Archbishop @JustinWelby speaking in the House of Lords today, on why he cannot support the Assisted Dying Bill.
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
5 years
A glorious first bilingual Easter Vigil/Vigilia Pascual with Baptism, Confirmation and Admission to Communion @StMattElephant @SouthwarkCofE 40 splendid candidates and over 300 in church bursting at the seams - Caminad en la luz de Cristo and thanks to Fr Hugo @FrHadan
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Bishop of Southwark
@BishopSouthwark
3 years
Farewell @archdeaconSwk and be sure of love and prayers from us all @SouthwarkCofE - thank you Jane for so much especially presiding and preaching @Southwarkcathed Sung Eucharist today
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