Welcome to the May edition of Grapevine, the monthly e-bulletin for clergy and parish teams, put together by
[email protected]. Wonersh Vicar to be next Bishop of Southampton Downing Street has announced that Canon Deborah Sellin will be the next Bishop of Southampton, in the Diocese of Winchester. Debbie is the Vicar of St John the Baptist, Wonersh with Blackheath and Area Dean for the Deanery of Cranleigh. She was ordained 12 years ago after working as a Family and Children’s Worker in a Church of England parish in Guildford, and as a Manager in the NHS. The Bishop of Southampton is a Suffragan Bishop in the Diocese of Winchester and works alongside the Bishop of Basingstoke to support the Bishop of Winchester in the Diocese, with a particular focus on serving the areas of Southampton and South Hampshire, and Bournemouth and East Dorset. Debbie said: “I am thrilled and honoured to be nominated as the first woman to be the Bishop of Southampton. It is a real joy to have the opportunity to support the many churches, parish communities and schools in their work to spread the Christian message.” Read the story. Archdeacon of Dorking Paul Bryer to take up new post in Cornwall The Archdeacon of Dorking, Paul Bryer, is leaving Guildford this summer, to take up a new post as Archdeacon of Cornwall in the Diocese of Truro. Paul has served as Archdeacon of Dorking since 2014. After serving a curacy at St Stephen’s Tonbridge in the Diocese of Rochester, Paul moved to the Diocese of Guildford in 1994 becoming vicar at St Mary’s Camberley and then St Paul’s Dorking, where he also went on to serve as Rural Dean of Dorking.