Seminarians assemble as new academic year starts

Bishop Alan Hopes recently played host to a lunchtime meeting of East Anglian seminarians at Our Lady of The Assumption and The English Martyrs, Cambridge. Present were both new seminarians and those returning to seminary to continue their formation for another year. Pictured left to right, are: Back row – Benjamin Barnett (OLEM Cambridge), Fr Simon... Read More

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August 20, 2020

Prameel Joseph rejoices as ordination dream is fulfilled

Prameel Joseph from St Luke’s in Peterborough has fulfilled a calling he has felt for many years after he was ordained to the diaconate by the Bishop of East Anglia at St John’s Cathedral. When he was younger, Prameel, who is from India, joined the Rosminian Fathers religious congregation. During a discernment at the end... Read More

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August 10, 2020

Plans for Walsingham Shrine development set to be reviewed

Plans for a major re-development of the Catholic National Shrine at Walsingham in North Norfolk are to be reviewed after concerns were raised about its effect on the Grade I Listed Slipper Chapel and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on future visitor numbers and finances for the project. The Trustees of the Catholic National... Read More

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July 29, 2020

East Anglia Diocese ordains Peter Wygnański to the priesthood

Peter Wygnański arrived at the end of his seminary journey on Saturday 25th July as the Bishop of East Anglia ordained him to the priesthood at the Cathedral of St John the Baptist in Norwich. Around 100 supporters from places where Peter had lived and ministered, as well as Peter’s parents and sister and some 30... Read More

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June 26, 2020

Bishop of East Anglia praises actions of front-line workers

Actions speak louder than words was the message of the Bishop of East Anglia as he celebrated a Mass at St John’s Cathedral in Norwich to show spiritual solidarity with front-line medical, care and voluntary workers across the country. “The Lord Jesus teaches us by his life and by the words of the Gospel, that... Read More

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April 19, 2020

Thousands of Catholics watch online Masses across East Anglia over Easter

Tens of thousands of Catholics have watched live streamed Masses in up to 17 churches across the Diocese of East Anglia over Easter, after churches were closed to physical congregations due to the coronavirus restrictions. Some online congregations for individual Masses were up to two or three times larger than congregations would normally have been,... Read More

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February 20, 2020

East Anglia so proud as new school approved

A new Catholic primary school in Hamptons East, Peterborough, has been approved by the local council and is believed to be the first Catholic school in the whole country to have been given the green light in a decade. The new maintained voluntary-aided school, which was approved by Peterborough City Council on 12th February, is... Read More

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