News for 2017
Saturday 30 December 2017
The Bishop?s Council of Advice Meeting in Westminster, which was to be on Saturday 13th January, has been cancelled in consideration of Bishop Mead?s present ill health. Dr Roy...
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Monday 18 December 2017
The Bishop is pleased to announce he has appointed Br Juniper, CGS, as Diocesan Webmaster to assist him in overseeing this website and ensuring it remains up to date. All Parish...
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Saturday 9 December 2017
On Tuesday 5th December, after a couple of weeks of increasing concern for his health, Bishop Mead was admitted by ambulance, for 12 hours, to his local hospital. Following...
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Monday 4 December 2017
The Mission of the Good Shepherd & St Tudwal / Cenhadaeth Y Bugail Da a Sant Tudwal, North Wales, worshipping in Gwydir Uchaf Chapel, celebrated their first Advent in the Anglican...
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Tuesday 28 November 2017
The new Anglican Catholic Church of St Augustine of Canterbury (the former Whitehill Methodist Church & Champion Hall, Painters Forstal, Nr Faversham, Kent) is a hive of activity...
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Sunday 26 November 2017
On Sunday 26th November the congregation of St Augustines Church Canterbury, celebrated their last Sunday service in Best Lane, Canterbury, which they have called home for 10...
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Friday 10 November 2017
Please find below the new Cycle of Prayer for the coming year from Advent Sunday 2017 (as a .pdf file). This file is also available from the Prayer section in the Site Menu on the...
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Saturday 4 November 2017
Of your charity please pray for the soul of + Leslie Hamlett, Archbishop of the Holy Catholic Church (Western Rite) and formerly first Bishop Ordinary of the ACC Missionary...
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Friday 3 November 2017
For the time being services in Rochester have been reduced to Mass on the THIRD Sunday of each month only. The Bishop has agreed to this temporary arrangement because Fr Jeen...
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Wednesday 18 October 2017
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Monday 16 October 2017
During Bishop Mead?s extended trip to the USA to attend the 2017 Joint Anglican Synods he has also fulfilled preaching engagements and visited ACC Churches, clergy and laity.
On...
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Wednesday 11 October 2017
Anglican Joint Synod - Keynote speaker at the Joint Synods Banquet - Fr. Clendenin. Click on Link Below for the video.
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Wednesday 11 October 2017
A UK delegate to Provincial Synod received special and significant recognition by the Church. Mr Roy Hipkiss was presented by the Archbishop with the Col. Jack Lane Award for Lay...
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Wednesday 11 October 2017
During the Provincial Synod in Atlanta Georgia USA, Mr James Tuite, Lay Reader at the Mission of Our Lady of Glastonbury, Bristol, was clothed as a Novice of the ACC's Religious...
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Wednesday 11 October 2017
From 4th - 6th October Bishop Damien Mead, Fr Roger Bell, Deacon Richard Mulholland, Dr Roy Fidge, Mr Roy Hipkiss and Mr James Tuite attended the biannual Synod of the Original...
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Friday 8 September 2017
A new initiative of the Mission of Our Lady of Glastonbury, Bristol, is a regular Podcast. The links below will take you to the podcast and to the Mission's page.
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Saturday 2 September 2017
On Saturday 2nd September the Bishop was in Chatham to judge a Children's Fancy Dress competition - part of a fundraising event to help Homeless people in Medway.
Remarking that...
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Tuesday 29 August 2017
DARTFORD MISSION PATRONAL
On Saturday 9th September the Bishop will visit the Mission of St Mary & St Eanswythe, Dartford, Kent for their Patronal Festival.
This tiny but...
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Tuesday 29 August 2017
In October Bishop Mead will lead the delegates from the Diocese of the United Kingdom to the ACC Provincial Synod in Atlanta, Ga. the Bishop will be accompanied by Fr Roger Bell...
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Sunday 20 August 2017
On Trinity XI (Sunday 27th August), the Bishop visited the Mission of St Deiniol and St Asaph / Eglwys Genhadol Sant Deiniol ac Asaph, in Pembrokeshire, South Wales.
During his...
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Friday 11 August 2017
On Sunday 13th August Bishop Mead visited the ACC Mission of St Boniface / Gemeenschap van Sint Bonifatius in Holland.
He celebrated Mass and preached at 1pm at (by kind...
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Saturday 5 August 2017
Our Lady and St Edward, Bolton will be celebrating the Feast of the Assumption at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fernyhalgh, Ladyewell, Lancashire on 15th August.
11am Rosary...
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Thursday 3 August 2017
The Mission of Our Lady of Glastonbury, Bristol, met in the Abbey ruins of Glastonbury Abbey for Mass in St Patrick's Chapel on Wednesday 2nd August, celebrated by Bishop...
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Saturday 29 July 2017
Services at the Mission of the Good Shepherd & St Tudwal / Cenhadaeth Y Bugail Da a Sant Tudwal.
Meeting at: 11am Mass (Bilingual) at the Chapel of the Holy Trinity, Gwydir...
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Friday 21 July 2017
The Diocesan Office took delivery this week of attractive new ring binders for the Diocesan Directory. In future A5 printed pages appropriately hole-punched will be used to update...
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Tuesday 11 July 2017
After almost 2 years of searching and 1 year of negotiations and patiently waiting, the congregation of St Augustines Church, Canterbury have had their offer to purchase a former...
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Monday 10 July 2017
The Chaplaincy of St. Boniface of Fulda is a very small, but dedicated, new missionary effort of the Anglican Catholic Church. It is located in the North-East of the Netherlands...
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Sunday 9 July 2017
On Saturday 8th July, Father Gareth Parry celebrated a special Mass of Thanksgiving for twenty-one years in Holy Orders, at the Chapel of the Holy Trinity, Gwydir Uchaf, Llanrwst...
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Thursday 6 July 2017
Congratulations to Fr Gareth Parry on the 21st Anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood.
Fr Parry (who is Priest in Charge of the Mission of Good Shepherd & St...
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Thursday 29 June 2017
On Sunday 25th June Bishop Mead visited the Church of St Alban the Martyr, Salford, Greater Manchester, to celebrate the Parish's Patronal Festival of St Alban. After the Mass he...
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Thursday 29 June 2017
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Due to a family emergency Fr Jeen Thomas has had to travel to Italy. There will be no services during July at Our Lady of Walsingham & St Francis, Rochester...
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Saturday 24 June 2017
Congratulations to Father Roger Bell who was ordained to the sacred order of priest in the Church of God by Bishop Mead in the Church of All Souls, Bolton, today the Feast of the...
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Thursday 22 June 2017
Bishop Damien Mead will, Dv, be in Bolton this Saturday (24th June) to ordain The Revd Roger Bell to the sacred priesthood. Fr Bell will continue as Curate at Our Lady & St...
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Sunday 4 June 2017
On Pentecost Sunday the Bishop, celebrating the Feast in our Canterbury Church, received Mrs Judith Anne Anderson into the full communion of the Anglican Catholic Church from the...
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Saturday 3 June 2017
A wonderfully big celebration for our very little Church today - Saturday 3rd June. The Bishop came to celebrate Mass, preach and License and induct Fr Jeen Thomas as our Priest...
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Thursday 1 June 2017
The Chapel home of Our Lady of Walsingham & St Francis of Assisi, Rochester, Kent, has recently undergone an extensive refurbishment and redocration inside and out, and which is...
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Tuesday 23 May 2017
The Bishop has made the following statement following yesterday's Terrorist Attack in Manchester Arena.
"While all normal, decent people throughout our country and around the...
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Friday 12 May 2017
Just to remind everyone that Our Lady & St Edward, Bolton, are on pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham 17th - 19th May. Further details via their web page below:
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Friday 12 May 2017
On Saturday 27th May 2017 our Canterbury congregation celebrate their Patronal Festival. St Augustine's have been worshipping in their present Church building for 10 years...
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Thursday 11 May 2017
On Wednesday 10th May, the Feast of St Damien of Molokai, the Bishop was in Glastonbury to celebrate Mass for the small group of ACC Pilgrims gathered there. Before the service...
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Monday 8 May 2017
On Wednesday 10th May at 12:30pm the Bishop celebrated Mass in the Chapel of St Patrick, within the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey.
This pilgrimage was arranged by the newest...
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Wednesday 3 May 2017
On Saturday 3rd June 2017 the Bishop will celebrate Pontifical Sung Mass and rededicate the Church of Our Lady of Walsingham & St Francis of Assisi, Rochester, after the Chapel's...
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Tuesday 2 May 2017
On Saturday 24th June 2017, The Feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist, the Bishop intends, Dv, to ordain the Reverend Roger Frederick Bell to the sacred order of Priest at...
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Monday 1 May 2017
On Saturday 29th April 2017 the Diocese held its Annual Synod in London. After the Synod Mass 3 former Parish Priests of the Church of Our Lady of Walsingham & St Francis of...
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Monday 1 May 2017
On Saturday 29th April 2017 the Diocese gathered in Synod. Celebrating our 25th anniversary of foundation, the clergy and lay delegates met at Methodist Central Hall, Westminster...
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Wednesday 26 April 2017
"I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the House of our God." Psalm 122:1
On Wednesday 26th April, Bishop Mead visited Rochester to see how the redecoration and...
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Friday 21 April 2017
**UPDATE** The Bishop has decided, following a request from the delegates to the Diocesan Synod from Our Lady of Glastonbury, Bristol, to bring forward James Tuites licensing as...
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Thursday 20 April 2017
With the increasing occurrence of the ACC Name and Shield being used in unauthorised ways, including from time to time people falsely claiming to be members and priests of our...
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Tuesday 11 April 2017
Bishop Mead will be celebrating the Diocesan Chrism Mass tomorrow, Wednesday 12th April, at 12 noon in St Augustine's Church, Best Lane, Canterbury. The Venerable Raymond...
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Thursday 30 March 2017
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Wednesday 29 March 2017
The Diocesan Secretary, Dr Roy Fidge and his wife Mrs Dulcie Fidge held a celebratory meal at Birchwood Golf Club, near their home in Dartford, Kent. The occasion on Sunday 26th...
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Friday 24 March 2017
Bishop Mead writes:
"As the United Kingdom, and the World, witnesses the aftermath unfolding of the terror attack in Westminster on Wednesday. We pray for those who have died...
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Tuesday 21 March 2017
On March 14th The Most Reverend Mark Haverland, Metropolitan of the Original Province and Acting Primate of the Anglican Catholic Church appointed the Right Reverend Damien Mead...
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Monday 20 March 2017
The XXVI Synod of the Diocese of the United Kingdom (Anglican Catholic Church) will be held, Dv, on Saturday 29th April 2017. By kind permission the Synod will once again be held...
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Thursday 9 March 2017
Currently the Church in Rochester is closed for redecoration, inside and out, and a certain amount of reordering before Fr Jeen Thomas takes over the Parish in May.
Co-dedicated...
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Thursday 9 March 2017
Bishop Damien Mead writes:
"We are at this time praying for our traditional Anglican brothers and sisters in the Church of England and especially for the Bishop of Burnley...
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Sunday 26 February 2017
Fr Gareth Parry, recently received into the ACC and originally ordained in the Church of Wales, is busy establishing the ACC's work in North Wales. The Bishop has agreed the...
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Friday 3 February 2017
On Sunday 5th February 2017 the Diocese of the United Kingdom welcomed Fr Gareth Parry, who was ordained in the Church in Wales and lives in North Wales, into the full communion...
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Sunday 29 January 2017
The Bishop was in Bristol today (Sunday 29th January) to visit the newest venture in our Diocese and celebrate the inaugural Mass for the Provisional Mission of Our Lady of...
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Tuesday 24 January 2017
Celebrating 25 Years
Anglican Catholic Church
Diocese of the United Kingdom
24 January 1992 - 24 January 2017
Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of...
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Thursday 19 January 2017
The Bishop will be in Bristol to celebrate Mass and preach. He will also receive a new member of the Church and celebrate the Sacrament of Confirmation on Sunday 29th January at...
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Tuesday 17 January 2017
The leaders of four Continuing Anglican Churches have announced plans for Joint Synods to meet in Atlanta, Georgia, the week of October 2nd to 6th. At the conclusion of the week...
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Friday 13 January 2017
From Our Lady of Walsingham & St Francis of Assisi, Rochester, Kent.
"We regret to inform everyone that our regular services are currently in abeyance, while we await the...
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Thursday 12 January 2017
Bishop Damien Mead has issued the following warning:
Following an enquiry from a member of the public who was recently approached by a man, using the name Havard Stevenson, on...
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Wednesday 4 January 2017
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
We know that "Epiphany" means manifestation or showing forth and Epiphany-tide follows close on Christmas because we see, as the 3 Magi visit the...
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