The Diocese in Europe is celebrating the 30th anniversary since the first women were ordained to the priesthood in the diocese. The Rt Revd Dr Jo Wells, Deputy Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, has been invited to preside at a celebratory service.
19 June 2025
Bishop Anthony Poggo has visited the Anglican Church of Burundi. He gave an address to the House of Bishops and met community leaders.
25 September 2024
A service has been held in the chapel of Lambeth Palace to celebrate 25 years of the ordination of women in the Church of England.
04 March 2019
The Nippon Sei Ko Kai, the Anglican Church in Japan, has celebrated 20 years of women’s ordination to the priesthood in the Province.
18 December 2018
The Bishop of St Asaph will ordain a 22-year-old tomorrow – a year younger than that normally allowed in the Church of Wales’ rules.
29 June 2018
A record number of young people considering a call to ministry are spending a year in parishes as part of a Ministry Experience Scheme.
01 May 2018
The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first ordination of women in the Province.
07 November 2017
Female priests in Canada profess to have struggled with everything from unequal pay to inappropriate touching by some parishioners.
05 December 2016
The first locally trained priests in the Diocese of Botswana have been ordained in what was the largest ordination service held in the 42-year history of the diocese, in the Anglican Province of Central Africa.
16 December 2015
In 1987, some 20,000 boys who fled the Sudanese civil war became stateless – their parents and families had been killed, and there was no prospect of being reintegrated in the country they had fled to avoid death or forced conscription into the northern Army. Some of them were eventually resettled in the USA and now one of these, Gabriel Garang Atem, has now been ordained a deacon by the Bishop of Utah.
09 December 2015