Service welcomes county’s new bishop
Wednesday 28th October 2009, 11:15AM GMT.
Shropshire congregations have already heard from the Bishop-Designate of Shrewsbury, the Rev Canon Mark Rylands about the importance of a welcome in their churches.
And this week, they get their chance to welcome the new man himself to his demanding role as Suffragan Bishop in a big episcopal area which also covers Telford and Wrekin.
Canon Mark, who takes over from the Rt Rev Alan Smith, now Bishop of St Albans, was consecrated as Bishop of Shrewsbury in Westminster Abbey this morning.
Next weekend, he will be formally installed at a special service in Lichfield Cathedral on Sunday also becoming a Canon of the Cathedral, followed by a service of welcome in Shrewsbury Abbey on Monday.
At the Lichfield service, the new Archdeacon of Walsall the Rev Chris Sims, formerly vicar of Shrewsbury Abbey, chaplain to Shrewsbury Town FC and Rural Dean of Shrewsbury will receive his own formal welcome and be installed as a Canon.
The Monday service in Shropshire will be preceded by a special reception for the new Bishop Mark and his wife, the Reverend Amanda, hosted by Lord Lieutenant Algy Heber-Percy, the chairman of Shropshire Council and Archdeacon of Salop, John Hall.
Mark Rylands leaves the south west as Canon Missioner of Exeter, based at the city’s cathedral, but knows Shropshire well – he was at school at Packwood Haugh in Ruyton-XI-Towns and then Shrewsbury School.
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