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Anglican

Anglicans form the family of Christians closely related to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Whilst tracing their inheritance back to Christ and the earliest Christians and to the ancient Roman Catholic church, the sixteenth century Reformation was a crucial moment for Anglicanism.

Bishop

‘Bishop’ comes from the Greek word for ‘overseer’. So a bishop is a senior Christian minister authorised to have oversight for God’s people. As well as duties given to deacons and priests, bishops confirm and ordain.

Diocese

‘Diocese’ refers to the geographical territory in which a bishop exercises oversight. The Church in Wales is divided into six dioceses each with its own cathedral in which is housed the cathedra (the bishop’s ‘chair’ or ‘throne’).

Eucharist

‘Eucharist’ comes from the Greek word for ‘thanksgiving’. At the Eucharist the Church remembers Jesus’ last supper where he gave bread and wine to be his body and blood, a sign of his saving love. See also Holy Communion.

Holy Communion

At Holy Communion blessed bread and wine is shared, by which we receive the body and blood of Jesus Christ. The congregation gives thanks for Jesus’ life, his death and resurrection and his continuing presence. See also Eucharist.

Lectionary

A lectionary is a pattern for Bible readings for the Church year. This means that churches in the Church in Wales are able to use the same readings on any given day.

Liturgy

Liturgy is a set form of words and action used for worship. In the Church in Wales (and many other churches) these forms follow the same pattern from one congregation to another. Most Anglican liturgies look back in some way to the Book of Common Prayer.

Llandaff Centre of Mission

A partnership between the Diocese of Llandaff and Church Army.

Prayer

Prayer sustains our human relationship with God and may involve words (formal or informal) or be silent. Prayer can involve adoration (‘I love you’), confession (‘sorry’), thanksgiving and supplication (‘please’).

Theological

‘Theology’ means literally ‘words about God’. Christian theology involves our trying to understand and explain what God has revealed about himself through Scripture. This work is aided by the writings of past and present theologians and human reason.

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Clergy School 2024

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Programme: 7th – 10th May 2024

Location, location, location …

You may wish to download the What3words (w3w) app to your smartphone. Links are provided throughout the programme to show the location of the various venues through the week: the three-word references can also be typed into the app manually.

There is some walking through the beautiful streets and gardens of central York, principally between the hotel, York Minster, the Guildhall, and St Olave’s church. These are all within a 10-15 minute walk of each other.

Staying at the Radisson Hotel, North Street, York YO1 6JF - (w3w badge.tile.bridge)

Problems? … contact Tim Jones (Director of Ministry) 07415 851546 / timjones@cinw.org.uk

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Events scheduled to take place at All Saints, North Street, will now be at the beautiful church of St Mary Bishophill Junior, York YO1 6EN (w3w deck.tone.cube)
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Tuesday 7th May

Depart by coach: Two routes:

COACH A

Coach leader: Michael Gable 07561 313199

8:00am: Port Talbot, DJ Thomas Travel Centre, Aberavon Road, SA12 7FA (w3w editor.chips.fleet)

8:30am: Neath, St David’s Street SA11 3AA (w3w hoping.master.spoken)

9am: Bridgend Sarn services CF32 9SY (w3w older.farmer.spun)

10am: Pontypridd: Sardis Road Car Park, CF37 1HA (w3w dragon.nodded.insect)

COACH B

Coach leader: Sarah Jones 07973 143950

9:30am: Cardiff, North Road, car park CF10 3EW (w3w assets.actual.claims)

10am: Cardiff Gate services, M4 Junction 30, CF23 8RA (w3w deed.lovely.tones)

Arrival

Arrive at hotel in York between 4pm and 5pm

6pm: Evening Prayer -St Mary Bishophill Junior, York YO1 6EN (w3w deck.tone.cube)

Welcome & introductions

Session A – Canon Dr Ian McIntosh (Director of Ministry, Diocese of York)

7:30pm: Dinner (hotel)

9pm: Compline (optional) - St Mary Bishophill Junior, York YO1 6EN (w3w deck.tone.cube)

Wednesday 8th May

7:45am: Morning Prayer (optional), St Mary Bishophill Junior, York YO1 6EN (w3w deck.tone.cube)

8-9am: Breakfast

9:30am: Holy Eucharist, St Olave’s Church , Marygate YO30 7BH (w3w towers.stir.vivid) - Archdeacon Mark presiding, Bishop Mary to preach

11am: Session B, hotel conference room – Dr David M Moffitt (Reader in New Testament, St Andrew’s University)

1pm: Lunch at the hotel

2:30pm: Session C, hotel conference room – Rev'd Canon Dr Michael Leyden (Dean of Emmanuel Theological College)

5:30pm: Evening Prayer, York Minster (w3w term.pops.event)

FREE EVENING

9pm: Compline (optional), St Mary Bishophill Junior, York YO1 6EN (w3w deck.tone.cube)

Thursday 9th May (Ascension Day)

7:45am: Morning Prayer (optional) - St Mary Bishophill Junior, York YO1 6EN (w3w deck.tone.cube)

8-9am: Breakfast

9:45am: Holy Eucharist - York Minster (w3w term.pops.event) (northwest door opens at 9:30am) - Bishop Mary presiding, Canon Jan van der Lely to preach

11am: Session D -York Guildhall, The Courtyard, Coney Street YO1 9QN (w3w signal.sling.riders) - Rev'd Canon Dr Michael Leydon (Dean of Emmanuel Theological College)

12:30pm: Buffet Lunch at Guildhall

FREE AFTERNOON

Booked activities:

2pm-3pm: Guided Tour of York Minster - (w3w term.pops.event) - Group Leader: Rhod Green

2pm-3:15pm: River Cruise - Embark at King’s Staith YO1 9SN (w3w pretty.local.result) - Group Leader: John Davis

2pm-3:15pm: Group Visit Immersive Van Gogh Exhibition - St.Mary’s, Castlegate YO1 3RN (w3w wonderfully.direct.album) - Group Leader: Paul Booth

3:45pm-5pm: Group Visit Immersive Van Gogh Exhibition - St.Mary’s, Castlegate YO1 3RN (w3w wonderfully.direct.album) - Group Leader: Mark Preece

2pm-4pm: Visit to the Jorvik Viking Centre - Coppergate YO1 9WT (w3w tins.mint.courier) - Group Leader: Geraint John

2pm-4pm: Tour of the National Railway Museum - Leeman Road YO26 4XJ (w3w cling.admire.loads) Group Leader: Belinda Huxtable-Goy

2pm-4pm: Group Visit to the York Chocolate Story - King’s Square YO1 7LD (w3w crowd.coast.sofa) - Group Leader: Laura Ames

4:30pm: Visit to the Shrine of St Margaret Clitherow - 35 Shambles YO1 7LX (w3w food.apples.open) Group Leader: Irving Hamer

5:30pm: Choral Evensong - St Mary Bishophill Junior, York YO1 6EN (w3w deck.tone.cube)

7pm for 7:30pm: Formal Dinner - York Guildhall (w3w signal.sling.riders)

Friday 10th May

7:45am: Morning Prayer (optional) - St Mary Bishophill Junior, York YO1 6EN (w3w deck.tone.cube)

8am-9am: Breakfast

9:30am: Session E, hotel conference room – Professor Simon Oliver (Van Mildert Professor of Divinity, University of Durham)

11:30am: Holy Eucharist - St Mary Bishophill Junior, York YO1 6EN (w3w deck.tone.cube) - Archdeacon Rhod presiding, Archdeacon Mark to preach

12:30pm: Lunch at the hotel

1:30pm: Depart by coach (Packed Meals enroute)

COACH A

Pontypridd, Bridgend/Sarn services, Neath, Port Talbot.

Coach leader: Michael Gable 07561 313199

COACH B

Cardiff Gate services, Cardiff North Road.

Coach leader: Sarah Jones 07973 143950

8pm-9pm: Arrive in Cardiff, Pontypridd, Bridgend, Neath & Port Talbot

Speakers

The Revd Canon Dr Ian McIntosh

Director of Ministry, Diocese of York

Session A: Tuesday 7th May, after Evening Prayer, All Saints North Street

The Revd Canon Dr Ian McIntosh is the Director of Ministry in the Diocese of York. Originally from London, after University he spent a year working as a volunteer in a church in inner city Manchester.

From there he went to train for ordination in Bristol where he met his wife Nicola. They were ordained deacons in 1990 and served curacies in adjacent parishes in the suburbs of London before moving to Leicester, where Ian was a University Chaplain and co-ordinator of Reader training. From there, they moved to North Bedfordshire to share ministry in three villages during which time Ian was also Rural Dean. In 2006, Ian became Director of Studies with the Eastern Region Ministry Course (Cambridge Theological Federation) and a year later was appointed Principal. He became Head of Formation in the National Ministry Team in 2015. For the ten years before moving to York in 2021, Ian was also an Associate Minister at St Andrew's Bedford.

Dr David M Moffitt

Reader in New Testament, St Andrews University

Session B: Wednesday 8th May, 11am, hotel conference room

Dr David M Moffitt is Reader in New Testament at the School of Divinity, St Andrews University, having previously taught New Testament at Duke Divinity School and Campbell University Divinity School.

A native of Rochester NY in the United States, Dr Moffitt’s research interests orbit around the various ways the earliest Christians understood Jesus and their own identities in relation to Jewish scripture, practices, and beliefs. His work is especially focused on the Epistle to the Hebrews and the strategies the text employs to interpret early Christian claims about Jesus’ person, death, resurrection and ascension in high-priestly and sacrificial terms. Beyond Hebrews, Dr Moffitt has particular interests in the ways the early Christian confession of Jesus’ ascension influences the theologies of the various books of the New Testament. His most recent book (Rethinking the Atonement, Baker Academic, 2022) examines the function of the ascension in the atonement.

The Reverend Canon Dr Michael Leyden

Dean of Emmanuel Theological College

Session C: Wednesday 8th May, 2:30pm hotel conference room

Session D: Thursday 9th May, 11am York Guildhall, The Courtyard, Coney Street YO1 9QN (w3w signal.sling.riders)

The Revd Canon Dr Michael Leyden is the Dean of Emmanuel Theological College. He is enthusiastic about theologically rich and practically robust formation that equips Christian disciples for mission-shaped life today. He has played a key role in developing Emmanuel’s vision and ethos and its distinctive approach to ministerial formation. Michael specializes in the interface of theology and ethics, which probably grew out of his teenage concern with the question “so what?” Having come to faith at school, he was concerned to figure out what difference being a disciple of Jesus could and should make to the kind

of lives we lead…and he has been ever since. His PhD was on Christology and human agency (again, another question, “if Jesus is Lord, what’s left for me to do?”) and his most recent book explores the practical implications of the theology of the Nicene Creed (Faithful Living: Discipleship, Creed, and Ethics, London: SCM, 2019). A companion volume to that book, on the moral implications of the Eucharist, is due for publication later this year (Living Eucharistically: Holy Communion and Discipleship, London: SCM, forthcoming). He has also published on the theology of worship and moral formation, and is regularly invited to speak at leaders’ gatherings, retreats, and church weekends away.

Professor Simon Oliver

Van Mildert Professor of Divinity, University of Durham

Session E: Thursday 10th May, 9:30am, hotel conference room

Professor Simon Oliver is the Van Mildert Professor of Divinity, University of Durham. He first studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford.

After a year working at a mission school in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) and a further year working in the property sector in Leeds, he moved to the University of Cambridge to study Theology. He was ordained to the diaconate in 1998 and to the priesthood in 1999. In 2000-2001 Simon was acting Dean of Jesus College, Cambridge and Director of Studies in Theology and from 2001 to 2004 was Chaplain of Hertford College, Oxford. During this time in Oxford, he was also honorary Chaplain to Helen House and Douglas House, hospices for children and young adults with life-limiting illness. This led to a particular interest in theological anthropology and the theology of disability, topics which he now includes in undergraduate modules. Simon was Senior Lecturer at the University of Wales, Lampeter from 2004 and moved to the University of Nottingham in 2009, becoming Head of Department in 2013. He came to Durham as Van Mildert Professor of Divinity in September 2015. Aside from his work in the Department of Theology and Religion, Simon is a residentiary Canon of Durham Cathedral. This joint role of University Professor and Cathedral Canon, which has its origins in the foundation of the University by the Bishop of Durham and the Cathedral Chapter in 1832, connects the work of academic theology with the daily life of the Church. From 2009 to 2020, Simon sat on the Anglican Communion's faith and order commission (the Inter Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order) and he currently serve on the Academic Board of the Lambeth Research Degrees in Theology, and the Research Degrees Panel of the Church of England's Ministry Division.