A photo from an ordination service in 2022
This year, for the first time in living memory, the ordination of deacons will be conducted at four different locations around the Diocese of Chester, rather than Chester Cathedral.
The three bishops of the diocese will each conduct the ordinations at one of the locations, with Bishop Mark visiting two.
Please hold in your prayers all those who are to be ordained deacon on Saturday 1 July 2023.
To be ordained at St Mark the Evangelist, New Ferry by Bishop Mark Tanner
Joe Hadfield – New Ferry, St Mark the Evangelist
To be ordained at St Thomas' Stockton Heath by Bishop Julie Conalty
Margaret Byrne – Whitegate, St Mary with Little Budworth, St Peter
Ruth Gray – Stockton Heath, St Thomas
Kate Kome Pwaisiho – Grappenhall, St Wilfrid
Amy Stevenson – Alderley Edge, St Philip and St James
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To be ordained deacon at Saint Mary Magdalene, Ashton upon Mersey by Bishop Sam Corley
Andy Crook – Stockport and Brinnington, St Mary
Anees Gill – Ashton upon Mersey, St Mary Magdalene
Jenny Eades – Bollington, St Oswald
Jane Mottram – Partington and Carrington, St Mary
To be ordained deacon at Audlem, St James by Bishop Mark Tanner
Jill Williams – Wybunbury, St Chad and Audlem, St James the Great with Doddington, St John the Evangelist
Please also pray for:
Thomas Ruston (ordained deacon last year and to be licensed as assistant curate in the Parish of Timperley)
James Doo (to be licensed as a lay worker in the parish of Hartford St John).