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Winter 2019-2020 AROUND the DIOCESE the Editorial Team Wishes Our Readers a Very Happy 2020 Winter 2019-2020 AROUND THE DIOCESE The Editorial Team wishes our readers a Very Happy 2020 Friends seated for the AGM - August Baghdad visits Lambeth Palace Four new Canons Friends gathering in York – October History of our diocese - Scheduled for release in February 2020 Archbishop Michael with ecumenical clergy WINTER 2019-2020 From the Chair Ian Calder: Bishop Michael provided a report on the state of the chaplaincies throughout the Dear Friends, diocese. The Annual Meeting at All Hallows by the After the Eucharist there was more chat Tower, was again a very good occasion. over lunch and thank you to All Hallows A big thank you to the Revd Katherine for putting on an excellent lunch for us to Hadderley and her team who gave us enjoy before returning from whence we such a warm welcome and looked after came. us so well. There was plenty chatter over coffee and tea before the meeting and Eucharist. It was a good opportunity to thank Sally Milner for all she has done for the “Friends” as secretary and to welcome Anne Lloyd who has agreed to take over from Sally. Attendees enjoying lunch In October we had another excellent day in York where 26 of us enjoyed meeting up with coffee, worship, lunch and a fascinating visit to the Minster. Many thanks to Ron and Bernice Maitland for organising another great day, their report follows later in this magazine. So far, I have been unable to organise a day in the South West, but I hope we may Sally Milner accept a gift of thanks still come up with some ideas and be able to put on a day sometime in 2020. I also presented a cheque from the “Friends” to Bishop Michael. I am looking forward to attending Synod in Abu Dhabi which I am sure will be another uplifting occasion, but in the meantime, I hope you all had a blessed Christmas, despite the political machinations of the U.K. and beyond, and that 2020 will be a year of peace and blessing for us all. Ian Calder _________________________________ Presenting a cheque to Bishop Michael Page 2 of 20 WINTER 2019-2020 Report on the Annual Meeting of the Friends of the Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf On a rather wet morning on the 5th August 2019 members from around the country converged on All Hallows by the Tower for the Annual meeting and were greeted with a warming cup of tea or coffee along with a very warm welcome from the good people of All Hallows and from their new parish Priest, the Revd Katherine Hedderly. Friends group check-in The Annual meeting is a good occasion for worship, fellowship, finding out about what’s happening across the Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf and having the opportunity to support the work of the diocese in prayer. 3rd August 2020 and I do encourage you to attend if you can. _________________________________ Bishop Michael’s address at the Friends AGM and Diocesan Eucharist on 5th August 2019 at All Hallows Revd Katherine Hedderly We call the Eucharist After a good time of catching up and on this occasion each chatting with friends, we had our Annual year a Celebration Meeting, it was good to welcome the Eucharist, and so it is, Venerable Nick Shutt from the Exeter doubly: a celebration Diocese and also to hand over a cheque of the Friends and a from the “Friends” to Bishop Michael for celebration of the his work around the diocese. We had a diocese itself. Thank you, Friends, for short break for quiet reflection which was +Michael Lewis followed by the Eucharist with Bishop Michael presiding and the Revd Katherine everything you do and are. Thank you Hedderly preaching. most of all for your prayerful and imaginative support of the continuing life As I mentioned previously the team at All of the Anglican Diocese of Cyprus and the Hallows put on an excellent lunch. I am Gulf. sure everyone who came would like to thank all the people who helped to This year we’re privileged not only to be provide the lunch for us as well as making hosted by the Reverend Katherine us so welcome throughout the day. This Hedderly, All Hallows’ new vicar, along gave us another opportunity to meet new with colleagues from the congregation of people as well as renew old this remarkable church, but also to have acquaintances before dispersing once her as our preacher. The sooner I sit more into the somewhat wet and gloomy down, the sooner – after a short interlude afternoon. – she can stand up. Page 3 of 20 WINTER 2019-2020 Meanwhile, it has become almost customary Holy Week stay with Julia traditional for me to note the past twelve alongside me. On another occasion we months’ alarms and excursions. Politically were accompanied by Canon Derek and the region has become dangerously hot, Mrs Sue Smith, late of Limassol. If you with President Trump’s sabotaging of the haven’t seen on the diocesan website the nuclear deal that was painstakingly crafted photographs of that and various other between major western powers and Iran. happening at St George’s, do look. Faiz You don’t have to be an admirer of the Jerjes carries on energetically developing regime in Tehran to understand its the Anglican School of the Redeemer, exasperation and fury. And needless which after this summer will see a further tough-guy posturing across the Atlantic influx of children sent by parents, mostly has resulted in the dashing of the hopes of Muslim, eager for what it provides. It is set ordinary people in Iran that sanctions to become as respected a local institution might be progressively eased as a quid as the clinic and the kindergarten. The pro quo for moderation of the nuclear neatly uniformed children are often in development programme. demand for publicity shots with government ministers. The present Iraqi Ecclesiastically it would be wrong not to prime minister, HE Adil Abdul-Mahdi, mention the enormous disappointment visited the compound and was duly (and more) that was expressed at impressed. I hope to take Faiz to diocesan synod in February after it was Lambeth Palace to meet the Archbishop of learned that the council of the Epiphany Canterbury and others on 5th November. Qatar had apparently persuaded an official in the government to replace my Elsewhere in the archdeaconry of the Gulf, nominated and trusted representatives in Kuwait has seen the opening of a branch the running of the Anglican Centre there of the Mothers’ Union led by Mama with names not sanctioned by me. We Christine Mbona, and the Urdu-language became aware of that immediately after congregation there is in the process of the departure of Fr Paul Davies as having its governance and oversight incumbent. The result has been the denial improved. Abu Dhabi parish continues to to the wider work of the diocese of a tithe include St Thomas Al ‘Ain and a dedicated from the Centre, and the takeover by the church building, on land already granted, council of day-to-day management and is a real prospect, though work at All administration of the Centre’s complex life. Saints Musaffah is presently stalled. What In Bahrain, I decided to ask Archdeacon was the Chaplaincy of Dubai and Sharjah Bill Schwartz, hitherto living in Qatar, with the Northern Emirates has now been whether he would agree to be considered disaggregated into four parishes: St for the impending vacant post of Dean, Martin Sharjah, Holy Trinity Dubai, Christ and thus take on a second full Church Jebel Ali, and St Luke Ras al responsibility. I hope I may say that the Khaimah with St Nicholas Fujairah, with council in Bahrain, whose consent I the hope that energies and talent will now sought, welcomed my suggestion with be devoted to appropriate local needs and open arms. After due process and an opportunities. In Oman Bill Schwartz and I opportune handover by Chris Butt, the have cautiously seen a small improvement outgoing dean, Bill was installed in St in relations and conversation between us Christopher’s Cathedral. He is at present and the council, and I was pleased over a on a richly deserved summer break in his recent weekend to preach at all four native America. services in Ghala and Ruwi. In the Yemen there is always hope that the misery of war In Iraq St George Baghdad has never will cease and some sort of been busier. I’ve been there three times accommodation will be found between the in the last year, including my now Hadi government, the Houthis, and other Page 4 of 20 WINTER 2019-2020 factions and groupings; meanwhile the forwards, is soon to advertise for a new work of Christ Church and the clinic at Ras incumbent. Morbat quietly goes on. Finally, in the kingdom that occupies so much of the In the last twelve-month period I have Arabian Peninsula, nothing, despite ordained two priests, Charlotte Lloyd- fanfare and promises, seems truly to have Evans for Al ‘Ain and Abu Dhabi and altered. Navina Thompson for Famagusta and Ammochostos, though Navina is currently Cyprus has just seen a change of back in Abu Dhabi while the next phase of archdeacon: John Holdsworth has in the her ministry is pondered. Deacons Justin last few days retired and will move to Arnott and Peter Day, both in Cyprus, will Wales after nine years’ service in Cyprus be priested this St Matthew’s Day. Reader and the Gulf in several major roles.
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