This evening Jack, Bishop of Sheffield, was with us to licence Alex Absalom and Anne Maclaurin as Mission Priests for St Thomas' Church, Philadelphia (which was made a parish by the Queen last summer). Our family was "sent out" at the same occasion - Jo, Susannah and I were prayed for; Noah slept through it all on the floor ("Noah" means "rest")...
Didn't realise Philadelphia was now a parish in its own right. How's that work? It isn't listed on the diocese website - is it a 'normal' parish of something different????
ReplyDeleteHi Phil,
ReplyDeleteIt's an Extra-Parochial Place (EPP). Previously the campus was within the parish of St Bartholomew's. Now it exists in its own right. No-one lives within the EPP - the boundaries literally go around the campus, and so exclude the one house that is on the site but doesn't belong to us!
The Bishop licenced Alex & Anne to operate with/under his authority anywhere within the Diocese.