New Year Messages from Lancashire’s three Anglican Bishops
In August, I wrote an article for a local newspaper about drugs and the danger of drug addiction; the chaos that drugs bring to people’s lives. It’s frightening when we
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Blackburn Cathedral Calendar – Photographic Competition
Get Your Camera Ready! As a way of raising funds for the continued work and upkeep of the Cathedral we are looking to produce a calendar for 2020 featuring the
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Blackburn Cathedral’s Director of Music set to move to new post
The cathedral’s Organist and Director of Music, Samuel Hudson, has been named as the new Organist and Director of Music at Worcester Cathedral. Sam has been in post at Blackburn
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Cathedral Sways to a Zumba Beat to Raise £800+ for Charity!
More than 100 Zumba exercise fans from all over Lancashire took over Blackburn Cathedral for a two-hour charity ‘Zumbathon’. Inspired by a previous event at Chester Cathedral, the huge crowd
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Forget mead: Cathedral launches its own brand gin
In a contemporary take on a medieval tradition, Blackburn Cathedral will this week launch the first ever Cathedral brand gin. Called Cathedra – the Dean of Blackburn hopes this new
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Cathedral Is Named County’s Cultural Venue of the Year
Cathedral Is Named County’s Cultural Venue of the Year Bishop Philip’s ‘Virtual Pilgrimage’ also up for award on the same evening! Blackburn Cathedral has been named Lancashire’s Cultural Venue of
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Repair Fund Helps Cathedral as Part of WWI Commemorations
A report published today says a national scheme to conserve and repair England’s cathedrals, from which Lancashire’s Anglican Cathedral was awarded £587,701, has significantly reduced immediate risks. The £40 million
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Installation of The Bishop Of Lancaster Rt Rev. Dr Jill Duff
‘I’d love to see people who are ‘beacons’ for Jesus across Lancashire’ On the night of a tense England game that ended in hard-won victory, there was a further release
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The Consecration Of New Bishop Of Lancaster
‘An exciting person, coming to an exciting team, at an exciting time’ ‘Surfing’ into her new role on the prayers of many, The Church of England in Lancashire now has
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Dates Set for Consecration and Installation of New Bishop
The consecration of Rev. Dr Jill Duff as the next Bishop of Lancaster will take place on June 29 in the historic and ancient setting of York Minster. The Consecration
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New Canon Missioner for Lancashire’s Cathedral hits the ground running
It was a challenge to find the time to talk … the first couple of weeks in post for the new Canon Missioner Rev. Canon Dr Rowena Pailing at Blackburn
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Thy Kingdom Come: 10 Days of Prayer in Lancashire Churches
The local, regional, national and international ecumenical prayer event ‘Thy Kingdom Come’, led by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, is under way across the County after an official ‘beacon
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