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Llandaff Welcomes Bishop June Diocese of LLANDAFF YR EGLWYS YNG NGHYMRU | THE CHURCH IN WALES Summer 2017 Llandaff welcomes Bishop June Inside From transplant to 10k Meet our trainee priests NEWS A message to the diocese: Bishop June’s letter issued following her appointment in April “The announcement Bishops, which was that I am to become agreed by the Bishops the 72nd Bishop of following the Canon Llandaff was a very which enabled the special moment for ordination of women me personally, for the as Bishops, also diocesan family and recognises that we are for those in Salisbury fully and unequivocally who will be saying committed to this farewell to me. I have kind of appointment. no doubt that this is My hope is that God’s call to me and I every member of the am profoundly grateful diocesan community that the privilege to will feel valued and serve in this wonderful encouraged because ecclesial community the quality of our will be mine. Thank you life together and to all who have already the strength of our made me feel so welcomed or who have Cathedral. It is my hope that we will be relatedness is hugely important to me. sent me good wishes and the promise of able to invite as wide a representation A fresh start in ministry is always their prayers. as possible from the diocese to both of a new adventure. I’m very aware that You may already know that Paul and I these services. I don’t yet know what I don’t know! I have lots of family in the diocese and he I’m aware that my appointment will will be looking to my colleagues across was born not that far from Llys Esgob so be the cause of nervousness for some all the parishes to discern with me the there is for us a great sense of returning who find themselves unable to accept workings of God’s Spirit and to rejoice to roots in this move. Our children are the orders of women. I want to reassure with me in His goodness. It is my prayer also very excited that Llandaff is to be such brothers and sisters of my good that together we will operate out of our home for the years to come. faith in being all that they would expect confidence and compassion, making a My consecration will be in Brecon of their bishop. No-one is required to difference for God in our communities Cathedral at 2.30pm on Saturday 15th accept women’s sacramental ministry in where we are already deeply planted. July, and the Enthronement will be at the Church in Wales although the Code So, in these days of transition, please 11am on Saturday 22nd July in our own of Practice in relation to the Ministry of pray for me as I will be praying for you.” Background A graduate in Social Sciences from oversaw the majority of the Cathedral’s Church of Sudan and South Sudan Manchester University, Bishop June 30-year Major Repair Programme of on health, theological education and trained for ministry at St John’s College, essential work to restore the fabric of the advocacy. Nottingham and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. Cathedral and safeguard it for the future. Bishop June continues to play a She was made a Deaconess in 1980 As Canon Treasurer and Dean she key role in the Anglican Communion’s and then served her curacy at St Martin- was instrumental in the commissioning commitment to implementing the in-the-Bullring in Birmingham where of Salisbury Cathedral’s much-loved development goals, and is a member of she was also Chaplain of Birmingham and admired William Pye font, and she the UK Government’s Advisory Panel for Children’s Hospital. She moved to the played a significant role in the Magna the Commemoration of WW1. Old Ford parishes in East London in Carta 800 celebrations two years ago. She is married to barrister Paul 1984. One of the first women to be She has also been a deputy lieutenant Goulding QC, who was born in Gabalfa, ordained priest in the Church of England of Wiltshire. and they have two children Meg and in 1994 following her ordination she Her ministry has been characterised Tom. Her interests include the arts served as Canon Treasurer at Salisbury by her passion for equality and diversity and soccer. A lifelong supporter of Cathedral and was Acting Dean of and she was a founder of the Church’s Manchester City, she is looking forward Salisbury for almost two years before Leading Women programme. She is also to following Cardiff City, watching being appointed Dean in 2004. deeply concerned about global poverty rugby at the Principality Stadium, and In her time at Salisbury, Bishop June and has worked with the Episcopal supporting the WNO. 2 | CROESO Summer 2017 NEWS Bishop June speaks of her joy about coming to Llandaff One of the most senior and experienced church leaders in the UK has spoken of her joy about becoming the Bishop of Llandaff. © Ash Mills June Osborne, who has served as Dean neighbours in Wales,” she said. including sitting on the Panel of Chairs. of Salisbury for the past 13 years, this “From ancient times Wales has been Her appointment was made by the month becomes the second female a place where faith is hugely important Church in Wales’ Bishops in April when bishop in the Church in Wales. to what a good life means. And so one no candidate nominated at the Electoral Bishop June says, “It is a very great of my first priorities is to make sure College in February secured enough privilege to become Bishop of Llandaff, that local churches feel really confident votes for election. an ancient post with many noble about what they believe and that they Welcoming her appointment, the predecessors, and I look engage with all that is Church’s Senior Bishop, the Bishop forward enormously a leader with happening in the local of Swansea and Brecon, John Davies, to taking up this new “ area. The context of the said, “In June Osborne, both the Church ministry. The prospect of clear vision, a different communities in Wales and the Diocese of Llandaff will living in South Wales is in this diocese will also find themselves to be richly blessed. She just terrific because I am pastoral heart inform a great deal about is known as a leader with clear vision, a already rooted through and a strategic how we plan and what pastoral heart and a strategic mind, all of my family in this part of kind of future we create which commend the Church to the wider the world. And it won’t mind” for the Church. community.” take me long to fall in love “It will be a learning Bishop June added that she was with the Diocese of Llandaff. journey, I’ll have L plates on as a novice delighted to become the second female “Leading a diocese that is so Bishop, and will be working towards a bishop in the Church in Wales, following diverse, in an area that is both historic vision of priorities along with the team the consecration of Wales’ first female and beautiful, will be challenging but that I inherit. Salisbury has taught me bishop, the Bishop of St Davids, Joanna I have an enormous appetite for the that everything that I have done that is Penberthy, in January. task and am deeply honoured to have important I have done within a highly “Isn’t this fantastic? Wales becomes the opportunity to join a diocesan team effective team. So I may be Bishop, but the Province of the Anglican Communion which is strong and imaginative. These actually it will be the teams - the teams that has the highest percentage of are turbulent times across the world and within the women the need for faith, and for the confident, ministry areas, bishops. distinctive leadership of the Church in the parishes, And for that Wales has never been more important.” the diocese we rejoice She says that the Church in Wales - that I look because had always been deeply rooted into to, to work one woman the communities that it serves and so together well.” is great but it will be the whole of the communities A ground- more than one of the diocese that she will be serving breaking figure woman in an – not just the church life or what goes in the Church organisation on in worship. She moves to Llys of England, really begins Esgob, the home of the bishop next Bishop June to speak of to the Cathedral, at the beginning of was the first a healthier September and her first priority will be to female Dean to be appointed to a environment within which everyone can get to know people, and for them to get medieval cathedral, having served as be themself. to know her, and then to listen very hard Salisbury Cathedral’s Canon Treasurer “It will also mean that the workings to what the existing team has to tell her. for nearly 10 years. She has been of the Bench of Bishops and the whole “I come as somebody with a strong active in the national life of the Church Church will just become more normal - it’s conviction that the Church should have of England, serving for many years on what people know in their everyday lives confidence in the faith that it offers our General Synod’s Standing Committee, – men and women, stronger together.” CROESO Summer 2017 | 3 NEWS Got a project in mind? Then get in touch Whether it’s funding for a soccer school, a cash boost for a memory café or the creation of a pioneering new new ministry post – more than £140,000 is available in grants for parishes to help realise their mission dreams this year.
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