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June 13, 2022

Fr Alan is named as new St John’s Cathedral Dean

Fr Alan Hodgson has been appointed as the new Cathedral Dean and Parish Priest of St John the Baptist and Holy Apostles in Norwich by Bishop […]
June 11, 2022

Bishop helps King’s Lynn church mark 125 years

Bishop Alan Hopes celebrated the 125th anniversary of the foundation of the Church of Our Lady of the Annunciation in King’s Lynn and of the restoration […]
June 10, 2022

Bishop Alan thanks priests for transforming lives

The annual Celebration of Priesthood in the Diocese of East Anglia took place at Our Lady of the Annunciation in Poringland and at the Bishop’s White […]
June 9, 2022

Peterborough parish hosts week of mission

The parish of Sacred Heart and St Oswald, Peterborough, hosted a week’s mission by a highly experienced team from the Sion Community in late May. The […]
May 30, 2022

Families invited to join online World Meeting

Families and couples across the Diocese of East Anglia are being invited to take part in the 10th World Meeting of Families via an online app […]
May 28, 2022

How to really know the Father’s love

In the latest in his Voice of Hope series Fr Alvan Ibeh looks at how we can know the Father’s love. Some weeks ago, during my […]
May 24, 2022

Be first to read June Catholic East Anglia

The June 2022 edition of the Catholic East Anglia newspaper is now published online and paper copies will be available in parishes from Friday May 27. […]
May 23, 2022

What can Catholics learn from Covid pandemic?

While recovering from a second bout of Covid, Poringland priest and UEA chaplain Fr Andrew Eburne had time to reflect on what Catholics might learn from […]
May 21, 2022

Invitation from Bishops to return to Mass at Pentecost

The Bishops of England and Wales have issued an invitation to Catholics to return to Mass at Pentecost in a Pastoral Letter to be read out […]
May 19, 2022

St Edmund’s Abbey ecumenical 1000-year celebration

Benedictine monks joined Catholic and Anglican parishioners in an historic ecumenical celebration of 1000 years of the Abbey of St Edmund last weekend (May 14-15) with […]
May 18, 2022

SVP national pilgrimage returning to Walsingham

The SVP National Pilgrimage is returning to Walsingham after a three-year gap during the Covid pandemic in early July. This year’s pilgrimage will be on July […]
May 18, 2022

Bishop inducts Fr Antony as parish priest at St Joseph’s

Fr Antony Arockiam was inducted as parish priest of St Joseph’s Catholic Church, St Neots, on Tuesday April 26 by Bishop Alan Hopes. During the Induction service […]
May 17, 2022

First Historic Churches Conference set for diocese

The first annual Historic Churches Conference for the Diocese of East Anglia will take place on Friday June 24, at the Cathedral of St John the […]
May 16, 2022

Synodal pathway is an all-encompassing invitation

The Synodal Pathway is “the most all-encompassing invitation issued to the Church, certainly in our lifetime,” Bishop Alan Hopes told a gathering in Norwich of parish […]
May 14, 2022

National award for Norwich Catholic nurse Estrella 

Norwich Emergency Department Staff Nurse Estrella Catalan has been given a posthumous CNO Gold Award by the Chief Nursing Officer for England Ruth May. Catholic nurse […]