Today, we mourn the death of Katharine, HRH The Duchess of Kent, who was born here in Yorkshire and whose Royal Wedding was held at York Minster in the city whose freedom she held. Katharine was an ...

Born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, in 1958, Stephen Cottrell was educated at Belfairs High School, Leigh-on-Sea, and the Polytechnic of Central London. He found faith as a teenager through the work of youth ...

During the 1680's and following his ordination, Lancelot went to the West Indies and obtained a position as a ship's chaplain. He received a payment of £20 for discharging his duties diligently. The ...

As I read the Makin review last week and reflected on the terrible abuse perpetrated by John Smyth and shamefully covered up by others, I am, first of all, moved by the accounts of victims and ...

Archbishop Stephen delivered the Presidential Address at the opening of General Synod in York this afternoon. This follows in full. I think it was Graham Greene who said, ‘If you are going to jump, ...

A personal statement from Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York in response to the BBC R4 File on Four programme - David Tudor The situation I faced when I became Bishop of Chelmsford, was horrible and ...

Archbishop Stephen delivered the Presidential Address at the opening of General Synod in London this afternoon. This follows in full. Synod, I want to use the time I have been given in this ...

The Archbishop delivered the Presidential address to the meeting of the General Synod in York today. The address follows in full “In today's world, the sense of belonging to a single human family is ...

Archbishop Stephen has written to all clergy, lay ministers and people in the Church of England today, on the Feast of Epiphany. This follows in full Mindful of the ongoing challenges facing the ...

Archbishop Stephen, alongside the Archbishop of Canterbury, delivered the Presidential address to the meeting of the General Synod in London today. This follows in full. Dear friends, we now turn from ...

The Archbishop today addressed General Synod on the Vision and Strategy for the Church of England in the 2020s. The speech follows in full... Discerning a vision and strategy for the Church of England ...

Archbishop Stephen writes in the Church Times today. The article follows in full... There is concern this week that the Church of England is about to abandon its network of parish churches, leading to ...