Great interview between Raymond Antrobus and @deanoakley.bsky.social on Raymond’s book #TheQuietEar, exploring growing up deaf, poetry and words, amazing people to take with you on an Ark, & concluding a poem or a sermon. Brilliant. #BSL @southwarkcathedral.bsky.social , @southwark.anglican.org

Presenting Rev Pat Soer with a Lancelot Andrewes medal from +Christopher: for 'Godly Service and Zeal for the Gospel'. Tireless coordinator of prayer & pastoral support for St John's Deptford. Full-Barnabas-level encourager & vocations champion! God bless you, Pat! @southwark.anglican.org

Prayers for the Nepali, Tibetan and Indian communities impacted by the Himalayan glacial collapse and flood. Devastating. Our hearts reach out to our friends and colleagues in the Gurkha and other communities in @royalgreenwich.bsky.social and around London. Jit Ranabhat @southwark.anglican.org

Join us on the 2026 Lewisham Interfaith Forum #PeaceWalk on Sun 12 July. Starting at the Synagogue at 2pm, CivicSuite 2:45, Islamic Centre 3:15, St Saviour's RC 4pm, St Stephen's CofE 4:45. @southwark.anglican.org @lewisham.gov.uk

Blessed by God to have 6 amazing #newpriests ordained at St Peter's Brockley, in @southwark.anglican.org. Thanks to Carol Ford for leading the retreat and preaching; to the fab musicians from SPB and Christ Church Gipsy Hill, and all who helped make it happen. #ComeHolySpirit 📸Liam & Jesse

Well, that was fun! A Woolwich Episcopal Area Clergy Family #Picnic out in @theroyalparks.bsky.social Greenwich Park. Thanks Helen, Ebun & George facilitating activities. "Is this an annual activity, or a first??" "Yes, it is!!" Thanks, the Woolwich EA office team, and all! @southwark.anglican.org

We thank God for a glorious pilgrimage to St Albans on Saturday. Huge thanks to Dean Jo Kelly-Moore and all the team at @stalbanscathedral.bsky.social for their welcome and hospitality and to @acutting.bsky.social, Bishop of Woolwich, for accompanying us on our journey @southwark.anglican.org

Come & join Street Pastors founder Rev Les Isaac of Ascension Trust, & others for an Envisioning Evening around Street Pastors in Greenwich, Woolwich & Lewisham. 7:30pm Thursday 25 June, Woolwich Central Baptist Church, Brumwell Ave, SE18 6UX. @southwark.anglican.org @royalgreenwich.bsky.social

In the niche between Ascension and Pentecost, 30 confirmation candidates from 6 churches, and their supporters, packed St Peter's, Walworth. Amazing testimonies of lives transformed; eagerly awaiting God's refreshing Holy Spirit. Father, may #ThyKingdomCome ! @southwark.anglican.org

Some football-related tension amongst some @churchofengland.org colleagues…!

Barry Hill@bishopbarry.bsky.social · 4mo ago

As @mfc.co.uk & @southamptonfc.bsky.social prepare for the #Championship Playoff semi-final, as @churchofengland.org bishops serving #Middlesbrough #Boro and #Southampton #Saints, here's a little message from Bishop Rhiannon and I:

Join our Woolwich Episcopal Area :: Racial Justice Group's Cathedral Pilgrimage! This year: @stalbanscathedral.bsky.social. Home to Britain's first saint and martyr, with the longest cathedral nave in England. Saturday 13 June. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pilgrimage... @southwark.anglican.org

Pilgrimage to St Albans Cathedral

A day pilgrimage to St Albans Cathedral organised by the Woolwich Racial Justice Group in the Anglican Diocese of Southwark

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13 new Canons for @southwarkcathedral.bsky.social ! Many thanks for your ministry already across our @southwark.anglican.org . www.facebook.com/share/v/18S1...

St Thomas @charltonchurch.bsky.social recently celebrated a Restoration Thanksgiving Service; works securing tha apse roof for years to come. St Luke's, the parish Patron also joined in the joyful service, with Archdeacon Chigor preaching. Cakes crafted by Summer! @southwark.anglican.org

Moving annual #anzacday Commemoration in the Gallipoli Chapel at Holy Trinity Eltham. Thanks: DL Matt Burrows, Justin Mtangi and other Aus & NZ armed forces reps, the @gallipoliassoc.bsky.social RBL and others. Including some Māori liturgy, a pounamu pectoral cross, and a kiwi - wattle stole.

Remembering #ANZACDay in the only Gallipoli Chapel in the northern hemisphere, at Holy Trinity, Eltham, 10am 26 April 2026. @gallipoliassoc.bsky.social www.gallipoli-association.org/events/29th-... @southwark.anglican.org

Alleluia! Rejoicing at St Mary Magdalene, Woolwich, as The Rev Dr Joseph Ajaefobi was Instituted and Inducted as Rector of Woolwich, in @southwark.anglican.org Diocese. May God bless this church and this community, as Rev Joe and his family join us. @royalgreenwich.bsky.social

What are you giving up for Lent, +Alastair? Rushing around, mainly… Walking Māia the black Labrador in torrential rain and mud a few days ago turned out to be too adventurous, fracturing an ankle. Didn’t prevent getting to St Augustine's, Honor Oak Park today, though. @southwark.anglican.org

Bishop Michael Marshall is leading the entering-Lent #retreat of Bishop’s Staff Meeting at Wychcroft this year. That is Bishops of Woolwich #8, #11, & #14 in the house. Great stories shared of God’s goodness in the Woolwich Area parishes and people over the last 51 years. @southwark.anglican.org

The @royalgreenwich.bsky.social Royal Borough of Greenwich hosted a #Holocaust Memorial Day gathering at Woolwich Town Hall of the Jewish community, and other faith and civic leaders, which I was honoured to attend, and pray. Powerfully moving music from cantor David Rome.

Remembering in the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity #wpcu2026 a recent joint Confirmation Service at the William Temple Church in Thamesmead, alongside Rev Cristina Cipriani (Southern Synod @urc.org.uk), and Rev Jonathan Dean (London District @methodist.org.uk). Such joy! @southwark.anglican.org

@ctslondon.bsky.social Leaders gathered in the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity #wpcu2026 to share stories and pray. Archbishop John Wilson helped us ponder Mary, the Incarnation, and 'One Body, One Spirit'. @southwark.anglican.org @methodist.org.uk @urc.org.uk @churchesengland.bsky.social

Some words about why my colleague bishops, our diocese and I are no longer posting on X: southwark.anglican.org/news-events/...

Are you coping at Christmas? Kenny Gibson, NHS Safeguarding's helpful post: www.linkedin.com/posts/kenny-... Many Churches offer a welcome to those on their own, or struggling, too. The Peace of Jesus. the Prince of Peace, be with you this Christmastide. @southwark.anglican.org @churchofengland.org

Thanks to Elliot for designing our 2025 Woolwich Episcopal Area Christmas Card. The story is on the @southwark.anglican.org website: southwark.anglican.org/the-2025-woo... In the photo: UAL chaplain Revd Mark Dean, +Alastair, Elliot Asante, and Revd Gill O’Neill at @southwarkcathedral.bsky.social.

The Woolwich Episcopal Area Card, created by Elliot Asante is featured here: southwark.anglican.org/the-2025-woo... @southwark.anglican.org www.instagram.com/elliotm_asan...

The 2025 Woolwich Episcopal Area Christmas card - The Diocese of Southwark

The 2025 Woolwich Episcopal Area Christmas card is a little different. It has been designed by Elliot Asante, an Illustration alumnus of...

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🙏#TodayWePray for Ministry amongst Deaf People and Penelope Beschizza (Diocesan contact for Sign Church). #Pray for the Bishops, priests, deacons & people of the Diocese of Northern Philippines, The Episcopal Church in the Philippines.

Thanks for this prayer, +Rosemarie. Our hearts go out to the people whose lives have been devastated by this huge storm. May our prayers and our responses be active. @rosemariemallett.bsky.social

The Diocese of Southwark@southwark.anglican.org · 10mo ago

Following the devastating impact of Hurricane Melissa, The Rt Revd Dr Rosemarie Mallett, Bishop of Croydon asks for prayers for the people of Jamaica and the Caribbean.

A Service of Thanksgiving for Margot Cutting’s Life 1pm Friday 24 October 2025 St Andrew’s Church, Dean Court, Orchard Rd, #Cumnor, Oxford, OX2 9BH Livestream: cumnor.org/margot-cutti... Order of service via the link

Pictures from our Diocesan Black History Month service. More to come. In everything, we were called to let our unique lights shine so that together we can light up God's kingdom