Category Archives: Bishop of Croydon

Minster gets new vicar but Negrini and Newman miss ceremony

Posted on September 9, 2018 by

The congregation at Croydon Minster, Croydon’s parish church for more than a century, has a new vicar this Sunday, following a formal service this week. Canon Andrew Bishop was named as the new priest-in-charge at the Minster by the Diocese … Continue reading →

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Bishop joins call to ‘honour legacy’ of the Kindertransport

Posted on September 7, 2018 by

Jonathan Clark, the Bishop of Croydon, has this week joined a call from nearly 50 religious leaders calling for the British Government to “honour the legacy” of the Kindertransport, which rescued thousands of Jewish and other children from the Nazis, … Continue reading →

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Tory candidate in Norbury caught out lying, honest to God

Posted on May 3, 2018 by

KEN LEE reports on an unheralded intervention from on high on the eve of the local elections A Conservative candidate standing for election in today’s local elections has been reproached for not telling the truth over religious matters in the … Continue reading →

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Bishop of Croydon makes amnesty appeal on immigration

Posted on April 21, 2018 by

The Bishop of Croydon, Jonathan Clark, has today entered the debate on the government’s “hostile” immigration strategy by calling for the immediate release of a mother and daughter who have been interned in “inhuman” conditions at immigrants’ removal centre at … Continue reading →

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Chair of Croydon Foster Carers gets New Year’s Honour

Posted on January 1, 2018 by

Amid the rows over the benighted Nick Clegg getting a knighthood (for services to austerity and student debt?) and Theresa May desperately doling out baubles to the Tory 1922 Committee for keeping her in power, there were some gongs announced … Continue reading →

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We will remember them: Croydon’s Remembrance Day services

Posted on November 8, 2017 by

Remembrance Day, paying tribute to the sacrifices of military and service personnel in conflicts past and present, will be observed in Croydon on Sunday, at the war memorial outside the Town Hall and at Croydon Minster. Conducted by the Rt … Continue reading →

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Refugee decision will help traffickers, says Bishop of Croydon

Posted on February 9, 2017 by

The Bishop of Croydon has joined the chorus of voices condemning the Tory government’s abandonment of a commitment to take in child refugees from the civil war in Syria and the Jungle camp at Calais. The Rt Rev Jonathan Clark … Continue reading →

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