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See of Dorchester Papers From the Bishop of Oxford As a Diocese, we are prayerfully seeking the person whom God is calling to be the next Bishop of Dorchester, one of three Area bishops in the Diocese of Oxford. At the heart of our vision we discern a call to become a more Christ-like Church for the sake of God’s world: contemplative, compassionate and courageous. Most of all we are seeking a new Bishop for Dorchester who will seek to model those qualities and inspire the Church of England across the Dorchester Area to live them out in our daily lives. Our new Bishop will therefore be a person of prayer, immersed in the Scriptures and the Christian tradition, able to be at home with and to love the clergy, parishes and benefices in many different church traditions and many different social contexts. We are seeking a person able to watch over themselves in a demanding role and to model healthy and life-giving patterns of ministry. We want our new bishop to be an inspiring leader of worship, preacher and teacher in a range of different contexts and to be a pastor to the ministers of the Area. The Bishop of Dorchester leads a strong and able Area Team in taking forward the common vision of the Diocese of Oxford in the Dorchester Area. Full details of that process can be found in these pages and on our diocesan website. We are therefore seeking a Bishop who can demonstrate commitment and experience to our diocesan priorities. The Bishop of Dorchester holds a significant place in the civic life of the area: we are therefore seeking a bishop who is able to make a confident contribution to wider society beyond the life of the church in civil, ecumenical and interfaith engagement and who is able to live and articulate the Christian gospel in the public square. The next Bishop of Dorchester will also play a significant role across the wider Diocese of Oxford according to his or her gifts. Thank you for being willing to consider being a candidate for the role. Please know that the Diocese is holding this process and all involved in prayer. July 2020 Contemplative | Compassionate | Courageous The Diocese of Oxford The Diocese of Oxford is a living, growing network of more than a thousand churches, chaplaincies and schools across the three counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. More than 2.4 million people live in the Diocese, and this number is set to rise by at least half a million over the next decade. The Diocese is divided into four Episcopal Areas in a mature area scheme. The Bishop of Dorchester is the Area Bishop for Oxfordshire outside the city of Oxford. The Bishop of Buckingham is Area Bishop for Buckinghamshire. The Bishop of Reading is Area Bishop for Berkshire. The Bishop of Oxford has the city of Oxford as an Episcopal Area and oversees the whole. Christ Church is the Cathedral for the Diocese. Dorchester Abbey is a significant centre for the Dorchester Episcopal Area and serves not only as the spiritual centre of the village, with many different parish activities, but also as centre for the Bishop of Dorchester’s ministry and place of pilgrimage. Church House Oxford is the administrative centre for the Diocese and is the base for more than 100 staff working in support of over 600 parishes and benefices and over 280 schools and multi academy trusts. The Dorchester Episcopal Area The Dorchester Area consists of the County of Oxfordshire, excluding the two deaneries in the city of Oxford which are under the direct episcopal oversight of the Bishop of Oxford. The Dorchester Area is itself larger than many dioceses of the Church of England, extending from the Cotswolds in the west all the way down to Henley-on-Thames. The Area is divided into eleven deaneries, namely: Abingdon, Aston & Cuddesdon, Bicester & Islip, Chipping Norton, Deddington, Henley, Vale of White Horse, Wantage, Wallingford, Witney and Woodstock. There are 88 benefices, 261 parishes and 326 churches. The combined electoral roll is nearly 13,000. Ministers and mission There are currently 92 stipendiary posts with 24 curates in training. There are 29 House for Duty clergy and 46 SSMs across the Area with 53 Licensed Lay Ministers (Readers) and 203 clergy with Permission to Officiate (not all of whom are retired clergy). The Area has 13 hospital, police, prison and school chaplains. The Bishop of Dorchester is part of the Bishop of Oxford’s senior leadership team comprising the four bishops, four archdeacons, the Dean of Christ Church, Diocesan Secretary and Heads of Department and the Registrar. Contemplative | Compassionate | Courageous The Area Team The Bishop of Dorchester leads the Area Team of the Dorchester Episcopal Area. In 2019 we strengthened the area teams significantly through the addition of a full time Associate Archdeacon for each of the three larger areas. These appointments, funded from our Common vision funds, are specifically designed to increase the proactive resource available for the development of new mission initiatives. The Dorchester Area Team consists of the Bishop of Dorchester, Archdeacon of Dorchester; the Associate Archdeacon of Dorchester and the Parish Development Adviser supported by the Area Director of Ordinands. Under the leadership of the Bishop the Area Team meets regularly with Area Deans, Assistant Area Deans and with Lay Chairs. The present Bishop of Dorchester is supported by a full time Personal Assistant and a part time Events Coordinator who both work alongside the Archdeacon’s Personal Assistant. The common vision process Over the last three years the Diocese has been reflecting and rebuilding a common vision. This is now centred around our vocation to be a more Christ-like Church for the sake of God’s world: more contemplative, more compassionate and more courageous. Our common vision process is emergent, creative, locally shaped and contextually appropriate for each part of our diverse diocese. It is not a series of top down programmes, reflecting that urban Slough is very different from the market town of Witney; the rural communities of West Berkshire are subtly different from the rural communities of the Cotswolds; the commuter belt in Amersham is as culturally distinct from the new town of Bicester. For this reason, we intentionally seek to develop, encourage and resource initiatives which are local and close to the ground. The Bishop of Dorchester, with the other Bishops, has a key role in nurturing our vision of what it means to be a Christ-like church through teaching and prayer and sacramental life and in enabling local response to this core vocation. Contemplative | Compassionate | Courageous Strategic priority areas We have discerned six key strategic priority areas within our common vision: 1. Environmental Action 2. Catechesis and discipleship 3. Growing new congregations 4. Schools, children, and young people 5. Addressing poverty and inequality 6. Celebrate and bless Milton Keynes. Delivering the strategy Every new senior appointment to the team is made on the basis of a commitment to this common vision. So far, this has included the appointment of a new Director of Education, Diocesan Secretary, Bishop of Reading, Archdeacon of Berkshire, Archdeacon of Oxford, Associate Archdeacons of Berkshire, Bucks and Dorchester, and Diocesan Director of Ordinands. Numerous other appointments have been made to a range of posts to support Common vision including the Director of New Congregations and the Development Fund Director. The next Bishop of Dorchester will need to share these common values and a commitment to working in a collaborative way with the emerging diocesan vision and strategy. There will certainly be room and space for the new Bishop to bring his or her own priorities to the developing work but there will need to be a willingness to work with what is already emerging. The Diocese has set aside £7.5 million of its own resources for these emerging mission plans over the next three-year period. The Diocese has also recently secured a major grant of strategic development funding, focussed around planting new congregations in the major conurbations of Reading, Slough, High Wycombe and Milton Keyes. The Diocesan common vision is beginning to have a very significant positive effect within the Dorchester area, with grants being awarded to many of our churches to enable them to further their mission, with new initiatives rolling out in our schools around chaplaincy and improving the mental health of children and their teachers, in youth work to name a few areas. Contemplative | Compassionate | Courageous The COVID pandemic The Church of England across Oxfordshire has so far responded with imagination, love and creativity to the demands of the COVID pandemic. There are some very good examples of pastoral care, of streamed worship and community service across the episcopal Area. However, it is already clear that the pandemic will bring major changes to the life of our nation, the county and to the life of the church. We are confident as a Diocese that our core vision to be a more Christ-like Church for the sake of God’s world will be retained, sharpened and deepened through this crisis. We are committed to continuing to revise the detail of our strategy as we respond to the changing national and local situation. We are aware that the crisis will test the financial resilience of every diocese, including Oxford. We are therefore seeking a new Bishop of Dorchester with imagination, resilience and capacity to help us continue to re-imagine the Church in the light of the changing needs of our communities in the coming years. We are also committed to waiting until face to face meetings become possible to begin the recruitment process to ensure the best possible process of discernment and the best possible start for a new colleague’s ministry.
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