The College of Evangelists has been relaunched to support the Church of England's ambition of seeing 1,000 new evangelists trained to help others share the good news of Jesus Christ across all churchmanship traditions.
Bishop Guli has written a feature for the Church of England Newspaper about our vision for real transformation in Diocese of Leicester churches that will see worshippers willing to be changed by encounter with others.
A report assessing the impact of work to develop a wide variety of non-traditional forms of church shows significant growth in worshippers
Louise Davis has taken up the role of Chaplain to Leicester City Women Football Club and has been getting to know the players and club members in recent weeks. Louise will be a pastorally proactive, spiritually reactive, non-judgmental listening ear for the club, working with everyone from the Under 9s girls to the physiotherapists, while focusing on the first team female players.
The Church of England's next Archdeacon of Leicester has been named as the Revd Canon Richard Worsfold, currently Area Dean for Leicester and Vicar of the city's Church of the Martyrs.
In this video, we hear from Bishop Guli about what she is looking forward to as well as the main areas of ministry she will be involved in as the new Bishop of Loughborough.
History was made when the Archbishop of Canterbury consecrated the first Bishop of Loughborough, the Rt Revd Guli Francis-Dehqani, at Canterbury Cathedral.
The Revd Canon Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani has been appointed as the first Bishop of Loughborough.
As Archdeacon of Loughborough, Claire will work to support churches across the western half of the Diocese of Leicester, an area which includes Loughborough, North West Leicestershire, Market Bosworth and Hinckley.
Bishop Christopher has today announced that he will retire at the end of May 2017.