For your prayers, here are the names of those to be ordained Deacons and Priests at Wells Cathedral this Petertide.
Pray for Bishop Michael as he lays hands on each person and for the power of the Holy Spirit to be ever present with everyone at these deeply profound services.
Pray for the parishes within which each new Deacon and Priest will serve and for a flourishing of their ministries.
Deacons
To be ordained on 30 June 2024.
| Christian Name | Last Name | Benefice |
|---|---|---|
| Farhad | Chermahini | Yeovil Holy Trinity with Barwick |
| Lucy | Davies | Milton and Mead Vale |
| James | Hall | Hong Kong |
| Jane | Hoe | Batheaston with Saint Catherine and Bathford |
| Julie | Kimber | Beercrocombe with Curry Mallet, Hatch Beauchamp, Orchard Portman, Staple Fitzpaine, Stoke St Mary with Thurlbear and West Hatch |
| Julie | Pelling | Bridgwater St Mary and Chilton Trinity |
| Jolyon | Stonehouse | Alham Vale |
| Samuel | Thompson | Frome Holy Trinity |
Priests
To be ordained on 29 June 2024.
| Christian Name | Last Name | Benefice |
|---|---|---|
| Lucy | Blows | Pill, Portbury and Easton in Gordano and Chaplain to the Mission to Seafarers |
| Robert | Cromwell | Wilton |
| Edward | Day | The Cathedral Church of St Andrew in Wells |
| Emma | King | Bath Weston All Saints with North Stoke and Langridge |
| Joanna | Moule | Long Ashton with Barrow Gurney and Flax Bourton |
| Ben | Notley | Combe Down with Monkton Combe and South Stoke |
| Coelette | Parkes | Ham Hill Villages |
| Rachel | Pengelly | Street with Walton and Compton Dundon |
| Frances | Smettem | The United Benefice of Winford with Felton Common Hill and Chew Stoke with Nempnett Thrubwell (to be known as Chew Valley West) |
| Louise | Southgate | Dulverton with Brushford, Brompton Regis, Upton and Skilgate |
| Alison | Tolson | Porlock and Porlock Weir with Stoke Pero, Selworthy and Luccombe, and Oare with Culbone |
| Harry | Wainwright | Christ Church with St Mary’s, Frome |
| Nathanael | Worsley | Waterside Benefice |
