Y3 and Y4 curates, Y1 Training Incumbents only
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Incumbency: Parish Finance
To explore the particular role that the incumbent has in the financial management of the parish. This includes the basics of reading balance sheets and annual accounts, how to workContinue reading
Incumbency: Chairing the PCC & APCM
Archdeacons Hilary and Katrina help us understand the legal aspects of the PCC, the responsibilities of the incumbent, and consider how to chair good and fruitful PCC meetings. To bookContinue reading
Incumbency: Supervision Skills
Supervision is the art of helping someone develop in their ministry or role. At its heart it is offering someone thinking space so they can think through what they areContinue reading
Incumbency: Legal Matters
This session covers some of the main areas where legal issues impact on day to day ministry. This includes: Marriage – banns, qualifying connections, common and special licenses and marriageContinue reading
Incumbency: Buildings and Faculties
This session is designed to help clergy navigate the broad and potentially complex range of issues affecting buildings and churchyards. Putting buildings within their wider missional context and not simplyContinue reading
Incumbency: Leading a positive safeguarding culture
Looking at the specific role of the incumbent in safeguarding: where the responsibilities lie, how to develop the safeguarding work of the parishes and oversight of those involved, and howContinue reading
Preaching Generosity Workshop
This workshop is designed for anyone who leads in churches and wants to feel more confident in preaching and teaching about giving as a part of our Christian discipleship. TheContinue reading
Into Incumbency: Keep on Running the Race
With our commitments to those we serve we also need a commitment to ourselves – to what keeps us growing as human beings, as disciples and as ministers. This sessionContinue reading
Into Incumbency: The ABCD of Community
Asset Based Community Development encourages good practice for churches engaging with local communities. The ABCD approach resonates with the Christian understanding of ‘mission dei’ – finding out what God isContinue reading
Into Incumbency: Church Schools
Exploring the ways that the incumbent can engage with children, staff and pupils in their schools and to help us understand the important aspects of children’s spirituality, as well asContinue reading
Into Incumbency: Environment and Faith
Against the background of the climate and biodiversity emergencies, the Diocese is giving increasing priority to exploring environmental concerns as a core discipleship priority. We achieved bronze Eco Diocese accreditationContinue reading
Into Incumbency: Hassle to Harmony
Being an incumbent necessarily involves handling disagreement and conflict. This session helps us identify the importance of, and how to enable, different voices to be heard. Thus moving from conflictContinue reading
A Christmas message to clergy, lay leaders and all in our worshipping communities, from the Bishop of Gloucester
Thank you to those who lead and organise, and all who participate in different ways — whether it’s about our worship, or the activities which engage with people and places in your context – seeking the flourishing of children, young people and adults, and the flourishing of place and creation, thank you.
Message from Bishop Robert, 1 August 2023
In this, my last contribution before I begin my sabbatical on Friday, I want to express my particular thanks to our retired clergy.
Message from Bishop Robert, 18 January 2022
An intrinsic part of our commitment to sharing the love of God is to ensure the wellbeing of all in our care and to keep the young and the most vulnerable safe.
Dreams do come true, by Mother Alycia
Blog by the Revd Dr (Mother) Alycia Timmis: “If we only dare to dream and to trust, God is faithful and takes the hodgepodge, patchwork of our lives and weaves them for His Glory.”
Message from Bishop Robert
Over 8 million people in this country live in overcrowded, unaffordable and sub-standard accommodation, I cannot but recognise that this is both an affront to human dignity and a challenge to act …
Gaining experience in different worshipping communities
Preparing for its second year, the Gloucester Ministry Experience Scheme gives young adults the opportunity to live and work amongst different worshipping communities in the Gloucester area. Members of theContinue reading
Maundy Thursday: watch the Chrism service from Gloucester Cathedral
Our special Maundy Thursday Chrism service, streamed live from Gloucester Cathedral, is now available to watch below. We were joined, via Zoom and Facebook, by Clergy and Lay people fromContinue reading
Message from Bishop Robert
Over 8 million people in this country live in overcrowded, unaffordable and sub-standard accommodation, I cannot but recognise that this is both an affront to human dignity and a challenge to act …
National Register of Clergy
The Church of England’s 20,000 active clergy – those who hold a licence or Permission to Officiate (PTO) – are being asked to confirm the information that both the NationalContinue reading
Updated guidance re church buildings, individual private prayer and funerals
To: all clergy and churchwardens in vacancy Please note that all documents referred to in this message can be found in the documents section of the national Church of England’s coronavirusContinue reading
Letter to clergy regarding time off and wellbeing from Bishop Rachel, April 2018
To: All Licensed Clergy, 11 April 2018 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he has given us a new birth intoContinue reading
