Category Archives: Archbishop of Canterbury

Mead’s Minster time to end after 32 years of church service

CROYDON CHRONICLES: Denise Mead became verger at Croydon Parish Church in 1993. This week, after working with three Vicars of Croydon, organising countless church events and welcoming Archbishops and a Princess Royal to Croydon, she will take her leave for … Continue reading

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The heretic bishop who recanted to avoid burning at the stake

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Reginald Peacock was consecrated as a bishop in a service conducted in the Archbishop’s palace in Croydon, but had to survive a show trial and ritual humiliation on the streets of Medieval London, as DAVID MORGAN writes The … Continue reading

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Former Sutton vicar to become 106th Archbishop of Canterbury

Sarah Mullally, once the country’s leading NHS nurse, later a trailblazing vicar in Sutton, has today been named as the Archbishop of Canterbury, the first woman to be appointed to the position in more than 1,400 years. “Sarah’s brilliant,” one … Continue reading

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