DE2834 European Anglican 34 Repr1 29/5/07 11:27:45 am - 1 - ( ) THE E UROPEAN A NGLICAN B ISHOP G EOFFREY: T HE MAN BEHIND THE MITRE B EHIND ENEMY LINES: A CHAPLAIN IN OCCUPIED F RANCE B INGO IN B ENIDORM: A VISITING V ICAR’ S MEMORIES O N S T P ETER’ S DOORSTEP: T HE A NGLICAN CENTRE IN R OME P ICTURE SPECIAL REPORT: A RRIVALS, DEPARTURES AND CELEBRATIONS FREE No.34 SPRING 2007 DE2834 European Anglican 34 Repr2 29/5/07 11:10:17 am - 2 - ( ) 2 HELPING THE HOLIDAYMAKER BUSMAN’S HOLIDAY IN BENIDORM 3 THE E UROPEAN A NGLICAN H ERE COMES S UMMER While many English churches run down their activities during the The Bishop of Gibraltar Summer the Diocese in Europe is gearing up for an increase in the pace in Europe The Rt Revd Geoffrey Rowell of life. Reflected in our pages in this issue is the work of holiday chaplains. Bishop’s Lodge, Church Road, Worth, Crawley RH19 7RT We also report a fast changing and rapidly growing diocese with new Tel:+44 (0) 1293 883051 Fax: +44 (0) 1293 884479 congregations and novel approaches to the unchanging mission of Christ. Email: bishop@dioceseineurope. org.uk Please pray for the people and ministries in these reports and encourage The Suffragan Bishop the work of the largest diocese in the Anglican Communion. And may you The Rt Revd David Hamid Postal address: Diocesan Office find some Summer sunshine to enhance the Lord’s Light in your life. Tel:+44 (0) 207 898 1160 Email: [email protected]. org.uk The Diocesan Office 14 Tufton Street, London, Jesus, and he was always on the look who found themselves in hospital thought this morning that I’d come SW1P 3QZ out for new ideas. I was slightly were often under insured. This to be like one of you.” I think that Tel:+44 (0) 207 898 1155 “EYES DOWN. perturbed, on entering the hotel one caused immense pastoral problems , says it all. I’m sure there’s a sermon Fax: +44 (0) 207 898 1166 day to find that he had placed a and great anxiety for them at an in there somewhere! Email: diocesan.office@europe. poster next to my own on the already difficult time. Patients fretted c-of-e.org.uk chaplain’s notice board. It was hand about whether they would be well Diocesan Secretary written, and in broken English it enough, and allowed, to travel home. Jill Swallow is the author of ‘Days Mr Adrian Mumford OOK IN ET L . L read: “If you can think of anything Families and friends worried about before Dibley’ is an account of Assistant Diocesan Secretary fun to do in the evenings, please having to fly home and leave a loved women’s ministry before they were Mrs Jeanne French tell Jesus.“ one still in hospital. Rooms in hotels allowed to be ordained as priests. Jill Swallow writes... Over the Christmas period often had to be vacated by relatives Finance Officer worship took place in the corners of who wanted to stay near their loved Mr Nick Wraight In her book she visits the strange US PRAY.” ones in hospital, but couldn’t afford ballrooms,TV lounges and games new world of the clerical outfitter The Cathedral of the Holy rooms, and our congregations varied to stay any longer in the resort. and the “closed shop” of the clergy Trinity, Gibraltar from fifty to fifteen. I have to say Over the weeks we found that an wives group. In and among stories Dean:The Very Revd Alan Woods At eight o’clock in the evenings, a happily together during my time as that the worship was a vital, but only important part of the chaplain’s of forgiveness, tragedy and Diocesan Website hush would descend on the an ICS seasonal winter chaplain in a tiny part of the chaplain’s work. ministry was also to the young celebration, readers come face to www.europe.anglican.org ballrooms.The noise and the bustle of Benidorm eighteen months ago. Over meals, during trips out, on the holiday reps, as well as the guests. face with a stubborn organist, an Editor and Diocesan the busy hotels would come to a My main task as chaplain, along dance floor, during the evening These young people work long and amorous archdeacon, a TV chef, Communications Officer stop. This was the only time of day with my husband who although not quizzes, to say nothing of the thrills hard in a very demanding job a long and a host of colourful parishioners. The Revd. Paul Needle when absolute reverential silence ordained was also referred to as and spills of the evening magic way from home. It is a busy, but at Postal address: Diocesan office could be guaranteed. Even small chaplain, was to organise and shows, jugglers and acrobats, we met times a lonely life too where long Jill is now a retired priest in the Email: children were made to be quiet. As publicise Sunday and midweek some lovely people who were only term relationships are often extremely Diocese of Wakefield. ‘Days before [email protected] the bingo numbers were called, you services for the guests in our three too keen to share with us their difficult to maintain. Dibley’ is published by Authentic Tel:0034 964 413166 could have heard a pin drop.Winning allocated hotels over the Christmas problems at home, news of their I think hotel chaplaincy ministry Media at £8-99. Design was now at stake……. and winning season. It was important to be seen families, as well as bereavements and was summed up for me by a young Adept Design, Norwich was everything. Woe betide anyone where the guests were, so that they other painful memories. They were man of about thirty who wandered Printer who was caught talking during this and we could get to know each other also keen to tell us why they would into the Sunday service one day. I’d Norwich Colour Print process. Such people would be - hence our many bingo evenings in never dream of going to church at been chatting with him and his publicly named and shamed from the the bar! home, and why they chose to be family in the bar area the previous Distribution stage, and even on occasions escorted All worship in the hotels came away from home at Christmas. night. He stood at the door and said: CoDEStorm plc from the room. It was far worse than under the jurisdiction of the hotel As chaplain, my work also took “Am I OK to come in dressed like Cover photo: A young church being in church! entertainment managers, so I became me into the hospitals to visit the this?” He’d never been to church member in Greater Athens shares Just in case you are wondering quite used to the Sunday eucharist English patients. On average, one before and happened to be wearing the joys of psalm singing with her what bingo and prayer has in taking its place in between the person dies a week on arrival at the shorts. I assured him that he was and favourite toy. common (apart from heads bowed in morning exercise class and the rifle hotels in Spain over the winter as he wandered in he said: “It’s just enforced silence) well all I can say is shooting competition! One of my period. In addition to the that last night, when we were sat that they both seemed to live quite entertainments managers was called bereavement work, holiday makers talking, you were like one of us. So I DE2834 European Anglican 34 Repr3 29/5/07 11:10:17 am - 3 - ( ) 4 A YOUTHFUL VOCATION FULFILLED LEADING A GROWING DIOCESE 5 The Bishop of priests. I attended grammar school What do your duties as Bishop of There is an interesting book, written by A DOZEN THINGS YOU before gaining a scholarship to Europe entail? the Jungian psychiatrist Dr. Anthony Gibraltar in Europe Winchester the very year that I had Mostly pastoral care. The diocese is Stevens, who is a member of the decided to be confirmed, some three growing and we are definitely short- Anglican parish in Corfu. Entitled MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT spends most of his years in advance of the normal age for staffed. The amount of work is daunting. Archetype revisited: towards natural confirmation. When I was offered a While we are deemed to be part of the history of the Self, the book pinpoints time on visits around place at Corpus Christi College, province of Canterbury, there is a the disappearance of the father in Cambridge towards the end of my time problem with funding. It is estimated Western society as one of the reasons the diocese. On a at Winchester, I had to decide whether that some 10 per cent of Britons live for socio-psychological breakdown. In to read history—a lifelong passion—or outside their country. Even those who answer to your question, I do not recent call in Vienna theology. The advice of my priest, which may not have been regular churchgoers believe that the Church should take its B ISHOP I took, was “read theology as long as at home, like to come to a place where cue from contemporary society. It Bishop Geoffrey you pray your theology”. I was selected English is spoken. Anglicanism has should, of course, be able to respond for ordination at the age of 18 become very popular in Europe.