Cardinal Nichols (Westminster) Mon: Travels to Rome, 7.00am. Congregation for the Oriental Churches Plenary Meeting (day 1), Rome, 11.00am. Tue: Congregation for the Oriental Churches Plenary Meeting (day 2), Rome, 11.00am. Returns from Rome, 11.00pm. Wed: Meeting with Bishops’ Conference Staff, London, SW1P 1QJ, 10.00am. Engagement at Lambeth Palace, 1.00pm. Opening of Westminster Cathedral Choir School Pre-Prep, 47 Francis Street, London, 6.30pm. Thu: Lunch for newly appointed Parish Priests, Archbishop’s House, Ambrosden Avenue, London, SW1P 1QJ, 12.30pm. Paul Williams and Fleur Dorrell-Bible Society, Archbishop’s House, Ambrosden Avenue, London, SW1P 1QJ, 3.30pm. Dr Philip McCarthy (CSAN), Archbishop’s House, Ambrosden Avenue, London, SW1P 1QJ, 4.30pm. Fri: Archbishop’s Council Meeting, SW1P 1QJ, 9.30am. Trustees’ Board, Archbishop’s House, Ambrosden Avenue, London, SW1P 1QJ, 11.15am.
Archbishop Longley (Birmingham) Sun-Tue: ARCIC Steering Group/Informal Talks, Rome. Thu: Mass, Opening of Our Lady and St Joseph Catholic Academy, Nuneaton, 11.00am. Fri: Archbishop’s Council Meeting, Archbishop’s House, Birmingham, 9.30am. Sat: Royal School of Church Music Festival Service, St Chad’s Cathedral, 5.45pm.
Archbishop McMahon (Liverpool) Sun: Dominican Order Meeting, London. Mon-Thu: Clergy Retreat, Drumalis Retreat and Conference Centre, Larne. Sat: Serra Meeting, Wigan, 7.00pm.
Archbishop Smith (Southwark) Mon: Attends Provincial Tribunal Study Days, Bournemouth, 4.00pm. Wed: Website launch of “Positivefaith”, Romero House, SE1, 5.00pm. Sat: Mass at General Chapter of Poor Servants of the Mother of God, Roehampton, 2.30pm.
Bishop Arnold (Salford) Sun: Prayer service with anointing of the Sick, St Mary’s, Oswaldtwistle, 2.00pm. Mon: Private engagements, Cathedral Centre. Tue: Meeting of Greater Manchester Churches Together, Cheadle Heath, 9.45am. Celebration of Mass with Catholic Teachers in Bolton, St Joseph’s High School, Bolton, 4.30pm. Wed: Attends the ‘A new vision for mission’ conference, Heythrop College, 10.30am. Fri: Private meetings, Wardley Hall. Attends CAFOD Trustees residential weekend. Sat: Attends CAFOD Trustees residential weekend.
Bishop Byrne (Birmingham) Sun-Wed: Ordination, New Brunswick, USA. Fri: Archbishop’s Council, Archbishop’s House, Birmingham, 9.30am. Mass, Our Lady of Fatima, Quinton, 7.00pm. Sat: Parish Visitation, Our Lady of the Wayside, Shirley.
Bishop Campbell (Lancaster) Mon-Sat: Meetings.
Bishop Cunningham (Hexham and Newcastle) Sun: Mass at St Bede’s, Washington for St Thomas Disabled Fellowship, 2.00pm. Thu: Morning Prayer with Church Leaders at Bishop Christine’s home, 8.00am. Mass at St Wilfrid’s School, South Shields, 10.30am.
Bishop Davies (Shrewsbury) Tue: Priests’ Safeguarding Training Day, Daresbury Park Hotel, Warrington, (10.30am); 11.00am – 4.30pm. Wed: ‘Our Mission Together’ Campaign Advisory Committee, Curial Offices, Birkenhead, 11.00am. Meetings, Curial Offices, Birkenhead, pm. Fri-Sat: International Council for Catechesis, Rome.
Bishop Doyle (Northampton) Sun: Visitation, Our Lady’s, Luton, 9.30am. Tue: Council of Deacons, Bishop’s House, 11.00am. Pre visitation meeting, Holy Ghost, Luton, 5.00pm. Wed: Mass to mark the joining of two schools, St Joseph’s & St Gregory’s, Bedford, 11.00am. Thu: 50th Anniversary Mass and opening of a wellbeing centre, St Edward’s Primary, Kettering, 10.00am. Fri: Schools’ Mass, St Mary’s, Dunstable, 11.00am. Sat: CWL AGM, Swanwick.
Bishop Egan (Portsmouth) Sun: Parish Visitation, Wash Common. Mon: Meeting new Pastoral Leadership team, Bishop’s House, Portsmouth. Meeting Head of Finance Department, Bishop’s House, Portsmouth. Tue: Coordinating Pastors Meeting, Bishop’s House, Portsmouth. Thu: Jubilarian’s Mass for Priests, followed by lunch, St John’s Cathedral and Bishop’s House, Portsmouth. Fri: Caritas Celebration Event, Holy Family Church, Southampton. University Chaplaincy meeting and lunch, Southampton. Sat: Catechists’ Formation Day to include Mass at 12.15pm, St John’s Cathedral and Discovery Centre, Portsmouth.
Bishop Hendricks (Auxiliary in Southwark) Sun: Induction of Parish Priest, St Joseph’s, Collier Wood, 10.45am. Confirmations, St Mary’s, West Croydon, 3.00pm. Mon: Tribunal Study Day, Bournemouth, all Day. Tue: Tribunal Study Day, Bournemouth, all day. Wed: Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, London, all day. Thu: Talk on Religion and Science, Sevenoaks, 7.00pm. Sat: CDA Conference, Vaughan House, Westminster, all day.
Bishop Heskett (Hallam) Sun: Confirmations, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Bentley, 10.00am. Tue-Thu: Clergy Conference, Hothorpe Hall. Thu: Evening Event, Sparks, Sheffield, 6.30pm.
Bishop Hopes (East Anglia) Sun: Solemn Mass, Cathedral, 11.00am. Friends of the Cathedral AGM, Narthex, Cathedral, 12.30pm. Mon: Engagements, White House, am. Engagements, White House, pm. Tue: Mass followed by School Heads meeting, Poringland, 11.00am. Engagements, White House, pm. Caritas meeting, Poringland, 6.00pm. Thu: Mass and lunch for retired Priests of the Diocese, Poringland, 11.00am. Fri: Walsingham Shrine Trustees meeting, 10.00am. Mass, 12.00 noon. Trustees Meeting continues, pm. Catechesis Commission Meeting, Poringland, 6.30pm.
Bishop Hudson (Auxiliary Bishop in Westminster) Sun: Episcopal Visitation to Sts Mary & Joseph and Our Lady Immaculate & St Frederick, Poplar and Limehouse. Tue: Visitation to St Edmund’s School, Millwall, 10.00am. Reception to Launch the Reconciling Leaders’ Network, Lambeth Palace, 6.30pm. Wed: Meeting in Archbishop’s House, 12.00pm. Thu: ‘New Parish Priests’ Induction’, Vaughan House, 10.30am. Cardinal Hume Centre Board, Westminster, 4.30pm. Providence Row AGM, The Dellow Centre, Aldgate, 5.30pm. Fri: Archbishop’s Council Meeting, Archbishop’s House, 9.30am. WRCDT Trustees’ Board, Vaughan House, 11.15am. Meeting in Archbishop’s House, 4.00pm. Sat: Visitation to St Edmund, Millwall. Attends Aid to the Church in Need Meeting, Cathedral Hall, 11.45am.
Bishop Kenney (Birmingham) Mon: Meeting of the Catenians, Oxford Circle, Sandford-on-Thames, 7.00pm. Tue: Talk on Relief & Development in the Third Word, Carterton, 8.00pm. Thu: Deacons’ meeting, All Souls, Coventry, 7.00pm. Fri: Archbishop’s Council, Archbishop’s House, Birmingham, 9.30am. Fri-Sat: Pastoral Visit, Sudan & South Sudan.
Bishop Lang (Clifton) Tue: Mass for La Ratraite Sisters, Weston-Super-Mare, 7.00pm. Wed: Trustees meeting, St Ambrose, 9.30am. Confirmation, Frome, 7.00pm. Thu: Council of Priests meeting. Confirmation, Holy Rood, Swindon, 7.00pm. Sat: Zimbabwean Mass, St Nicks, Bristol, 1.30pm.
Bishop Lynch (Auxiliary in Southwark) Sun: Parish Feast Day at Our Lady of the Rosary, Brixton, 12 noon. Tue: Lambeth Deanery Meeting at Bartholomew’s, Norbury, 11.00am. Sat: Day for Eucharistic Ministers at St George’s Cathedral, 10.00am – 4.00pm.
Bishop McAleenan (Auxiliary Bishop in Westminster) Sun: Induction Mass for Fr Andreas Blum (German Chaplaincy), Saint Boniface German Roman Catholic, Adler Street, Whitechapel, London, 11.00am. Adult Confirmations, Cathedral, 5.30pm. Mon: Mass-30th Anniversary-John Henry Newman Catholic School, 9.00am. Tue: Mid-Herts Catenian Clergy Meeting, 7.30pm. Thu: New Parish Priests’ Day, 10.00am. St Joseph’s Drama Group, Bedwell Crescent, Stevenage, 7.30pm. Fri: Archbishop’s Council Meeting, Archbishop’s House, 9.30am. Trustee Board Meeting, 11.00am. Meeting, Archbishop’s House, 2.00pm. Office of Migration Policy Meeting, 3.00pm. Sat: One Day Conference-Deaf-Lady Chapel in the Cathedral, 10.00am. Mass, Tring, 6.00pm.
Bishop McGough (Birmingham) Mon: Memorial Service, Stoke Civic Centre, 1.00pm. Tue: Visits St Patrick’s School, Stafford, 2.00pm. Confirmations, St Patrick’s, Stafford, 7.00pm. Fri: Archbishop’s Council Meeting, Archbishop’s House, Birmingham, 9.30am. Sat: Parish Visitation, St John the Baptist, Alton.
Bishop McKinney (Nottingham) Sun: Visitation Mass, St Paul’s, Lenton, 9.30am. Visitation Mass, St Mary’s, Hyson Green, 11.00am. Mon: Mass of Induction, St Philip Neri, Mansfield, 7.00pm. Tue: NRCDES Meeting, Diocesan Centre, Mackworth, 2.00pm. Thu: Mass for the 60th Anniversary of Blessed Robert Widmerpool Primary School, Corpus Christi, Clifton, 9.30am. Fri: Vestment Exhibition, St Barnabas Cathedral, 10.00am. Theological Society, Holy Cross Priory, Leicester, 7.00pm. Sat: Visits Northern Iraq.
Bishop Malone (Liverpool) Mon: Funeral Mass for Rev Michael Gaine, St Charles Borromeo, Liverpool, 12.00 noon.
Bishop Mason (Auxiliary in Southwark) Sun: Maidstone Deanery Confirmations in Bearsted, 3.00pm. Mon: Mass at The Hermitage, 10.00am. Tue: Meeting at Eccleston Square, 12.00pm. Meeting in Thanet, 7.00pm. Wed: Annual National Service of Seafarers at St Paul’s Cathedral, 5.00pm. Thu: Confirmations in Herne Bay & Whitstable, 7.00pm.
Bishop Moth (Arundel and Brighton) Sun: Visitation to Our Lady and St Peter’s Parish, Leatherhead, 8.30am. Meeting, Tadworth, 8.00pm. Mon: Meeting, Eccleston Square, London, 11.00am. Council of Reference Meeting, House of Lords, 2.00pm-3.00pm. Weybridge Deanery Future Planning Meeting, Thames Ditton, 7.00pm-10.00pm. Tue: SERFCA Lord-Lieutenants’ of Sussex Awards Ceremony, Worthing, 7.00pm. Wed: Meeting, High Oaks, 11.00am. Visit to Crossbush Convent, 12.30pm. Meeting, Bishop’s House, Hove, 4.00pm. Brighton Deanery Future Planning Meeting, St Mary’s, Preston Park, 7.00pm-10.00pm. Thu: Meeting, DABCEC, 8.30am. On-going Formation Meeting, High Oaks, 12.30pm-4.30pm. Cathedral Deanery Future Planning Meeting, Arundel, 7.30pm-10.00pm. Fri: Meeting, High Oaks, 8.30am. Meeting, Arundel Cathedral, 11.00am. Deacons’ Retreat weekend, St Columba’s, Woking, 3.00pm.
Bishop O’Toole (Plymouth) Sun: Visitation of Our Lady, Marnhull and St Benedict, Gillingham, all day. Tue: Celebrates Mass at the Tribunal Provincial Study Days, Hermitage Hotel, Bournemouth, 12 noon. Wed: Engagements Bishop’s House, Plymouth, all day. Thu: Bishop’s Council Meeting, St Boniface House, Buckfast, 11.00am. Attends the Day with Mary Apostolate Conference at Buckfast Abbey, Buckfast, 2.00pm. Fri: Engagements Bishop’s House, Plymouth, all day. Sat: Speaks at the Deacons Enquiry Day, St Boniface House, Buckfast, 10.30am. Celebrates Mass and preaches at Celebrate Southwest Weekend, Notre Dame, Plymouth.
Bishop Sherrington (Auxiliary Bishop in Westminster) Sun: Parish visitation (day 2), Sacred Heart and Mary Immaculate, Mill Hill, all day. Tue: Haringey Deans’ meeting, St Francis de Sales, Tottenham, 11.00am. Wed: Meetings, Archbishop’s House, 10.00am. Thu: New parish priests’ induction day, Vaughan House, 10.30am. Fri: Archbishop’s Council Meeting, Archbishop’s House, 9.30am. Diocesan Trustees Meeting, Vaughan House, 11.15am. Meeting, Archbishop’s House, 2.30pm. Celebrates Mass of induction of parish priest, Our Lady of Lourdes, New Southgate, 7.30pm.
Bishop Stock (Leeds) Mon-Fri: Junior Clergy Retreat, Convento di Palazzola, Rocca di Papa, Rome.
Bishop Williams (Brentwood) Sun: Attends Justice Service, Cathedral, 11.30am. Mon: Celebrates Mass for 375th Anniversary of the Foundation of the English Community of the Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre, New Hall School, 9.00am. Wed: Pastoral Visitation & Confirmations, Tilbury. Thu: Attends Meeting of Council of Priests, 11.00am. Attends Meeting of Bishop’s Council, 2.15pm. Celebrates Mass of Patronal Feast, SS Mary & Ethelburga, Barking. Sat: Celebrates Mass for Stewards of the Gospel Retreat Day, Sion Community. Celebrates Mass and Venerates Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of Fatima for Centenary Celebration of Fatima Apparitions, Our Lady of Fatima Church, Harlow, 2.00pm.
Bishop Williams (Auxiliary Bishop in Liverpool) Mon: Funeral Mass for Rev Michael Gaine, St Charles Borromeo, Liverpool, 12.00 noon. Wed: Healthcare Meeting, Liverpool, 5.00pm. Thu: Emmaus Merseyside Homeless Project, Seaforth, 2.00pm. CTMR Management Committee, Quaker Meeting House, Liverpool, 3.00pm. Fri: Day of Recollection for Prison Chaplains, Liverpool, 10.00am. Sat: Equipes Notre Dame Northern Regional Gathering, St Joseph, Penketh, 11.00am.
Bishop Wilson (Auxiliary Bishop in Westminster) Sun: October Torchlit Procession, Willesden Green, 7.00pm. Tue: Ealing Deanery Conference, 10.00am. Wed: Diocesan Schools Commissioners Conference, Hendon Hall Hotel, Ashley Lane, London, 10.00am. Mass-25th Anniversary of DCN-Duncan Macpherson, St Mary’s University Chapel, Twickenham, 7.00pm. Thu: HCC Meeting, 11.00am. West London Deans’ Meeting, 5.30pm. Fri: Archbishop’s Council, Archbishop’s House, 9.30am. Trustees Board Meeting, 11.00am. Meeting, Archbishop’s House, 1.30pm. Sat: Confirmation, Church of St David, Stanwell, 11.00am.
WALES
Bishop Brignall (Wrexham) Sun: Pastoral Visitation of Llanidloes/Newtown/Welshpool parish. Tue: Newman Association 75th Anniversary Mass, Cathedral, 12.00 noon. Marriage & Family Life Commission, Llandudno, 7.00pm. Wed: Liturgy Commission, Holywell, 4.00pm. Thu: CaTEW Board meeting, London.
Bishop Burns (Menevia) Tue: Meetings with International Affairs Department and AoS, London, 11.30am. Thu: Meeting with Diocesan Archivist, Curial Office, 11.30am.
SCOTLAND
Archbishop Cushley (St Andrews & Edinburgh) Sun: ICEL Editorial Committee meeting, Washington DC.
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