THE E UROP E AN A NGLICAN A P RINC E IN D E NMARK C OP E NHAG E N ’ S R OYAL V ISIT M OUNTAIN M INISTRY S POTLIGHT ON A N D ORRA M AUN D Y IN TH E M INST E R F ROM R OM E TO Y ORK F OR H ONOURS “ N OT Q UIT E G OO D E NOUGH ” A T H E OLOGY O F S HAM E H ISTORIC N OR D IC L INKS B IRKIN TO B AL E STRAN D europe.anglican.org No.54 SUMMER 2012 DE6364 - TEA 54 June 2012 v2 REPRO.indd 1 10/05/2012 16:43:15 2 MAUNDY HONOUR IN YORK MINSTER THE E UROP E AN H ONOUR ed B Y A A NGLICA N M ONARCH , P RINC E AN D D UK E The Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe The Rt Revd Geoffrey Rowell Bishop’s Lodge, Church Road, Befitting a Summer of Diamond Jubilee celebrations the European Anglican offers a right Worth, Crawley RH10 7RT royal edition. We have been honoured by royal visitors in Denmark and Malta and for the Tel: +44 (0) 1293 883051 Fax: +44 (0) 1293 884479 second year in succession the Diocese was involved in the Royal Maundy Service where a Email: church member from Rome received the specially minted coins. [email protected] We highlight our diverse ministry with a visit to one of Europe’s small Principalities and The Suffragan Bishop in Europe also dip into the variety of church life in Tangiers, Norway and Germany with a look at our The Rt Revd David Hamid history and present day activities. Postal address: Diocesan Office Our Diocesan Synod meets in Cologne in June, for the final time before new elections Tel: +44 (0) 207 898 1160 during the Summer, immediately followed by the first ever Conference for Readers. There Email: will be regular information and reports posted on our new diocesan website which is already [email protected] being warmly welcomed for its pictures, events coverage, information layout and navigation. The Diocesan Office The website launch coincided with final planning of events in many of our churches to 14 Tufton Street, London, mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and will be reported there and in a future edition of this SW1P 3QZ Tel: +44 (0) 207 898 1155 magazine. The royal nature of our mission and communications continues, however, with Fax: +44 (0) 207 898 1166 the timeless message of the Kingdom of God which inspires our worship and work. Email: As you discover more about the Diocese in Europe please pray that Christ our King will [email protected] bless us in our work for Him. Diocesan Secretary Mr Adrian Mumford Assistant Diocesan Secretary P AUL N EEDLE Mrs Jeanne French E D ITOR , TH E E UROP E AN A NGLICAN Finance Officer Mr Nick Wraight Diocesan Website www.europe.anglican.org Editor and Diocesan Communications Officer The Revd. Paul Needle Postal address: Diocesan Office Email: [email protected] Tel: 0034 662 482 944 Friends of the Diocese Secretary: Rev Canon Arthur Siddall Email: [email protected] Design Adept Design, Norwich Printer Barnwell Print Ltd, Aylsham Distribution CoDEStorm plc Front cover picture: The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall after church in St Alban’s, Copenhagen, during their official visit to Denmark. Copenhagen Photographs by Hasse Ferrold. Maundy picture on right: By Kippa Matthews. DE6364 - TEA 54 June 2012 v2 REPRO.indd 2 10/05/2012 16:43:16 WONDERFUL WEEKEND 3 FOR COPENHAGEN R OYAL V ISITORS C ROWN C OP E NHAG E N ’S A NNI ve RSARY The Prince of Wales and Duchess of York worshipped at St Alban’s Church Copenhagen during their official visit to Denmark in March. St Alban’s is marking its 125th anniversary, and after the service the royal couple planted a tree next to the church to commemorate The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. They were greeted by Suffragan Bishop David Hamid and Archdeacon Jonathan LLoyd, with members of St Alban’s Sunday School. At the end of the service he showed the visitors a Memorial to HM Queen Alexandra, who founded St Alban’s Church in 1897. Prince Charles chatted with Owen Prewett, St Alban’s Church Environmental Officer, about the importance of church action on the environment. After signing the Visitor’s Book and meeting churchwardens Katie Robson and Claire Clausen, the couple were presented with a bouquet by one of the acolytes, before being introduced to the church choir. M AUN D Y M ON E Y AT TH E M INST E R At the Royal Maundy service in York Minster, in April, Jane Castrucci from All Saints Church in Rome represented the Diocese in Europe. Jane outside the Minster with her sons Because it is her Diamond Jubilee year the Queen requested that each of the Church of England’s 44 dioceses should be represented. Jane has worshipped in the English congregation in Rome for over 50 years. She has served on the Archdeaconry Synod for twenty years, and was a Churchwarden as well as untiringly producing homemade items for sale, not only for All Saints’ but all sorts of different charitable causes. Accompanied by her two sons Robert and Thomas she says she was overawed by the enormity of the ceremony. As the Queen handed out the specially minted Maundy money she asked Jane which diocese she represented and was suitable impressed to be told “Europe, Ma’am, I’m from Rome!” Inside the Minster with Canon Arthur Jane has since shared her experiences with fellow worshippers in Rome who Siddal, Secretary of the Friends of the were impressed to see the Maundy money for themselves. Diocese DE6364 - TEA 54 June 2012 v2 REPRO.indd 3 10/05/2012 16:43:20 TOUCHING BASE 4 WITH TANGIERS D IOC E S E AT W ORK IN N ORTH A F RICA Not only does the Diocese in Europe stretch from Madeira to Moscow and Gibraltar to Iceland, it also includes two congregations in Morocco – in Casablanca and Tangier. Rev Peter Jordan and his wife Barbara have recently returned from locum duty in Tangier and reflect on an “interesting and challenging” stay. St Andrew’s Anglican Church is 120 and taken to a port in Algeria. Not years old. The building has been well willing to give up and go home he kept and tourists visit to admire the had crossed the border and returned Moorish style and the Lord’s Prayer to Tangier, and to St. Andrew’s in Arabic decorating the nave. It – now, like many others, short of was also admired and featured by money. Matisse in his painting “Landscape One delight was the baptism of viewed from a window” painted in Rachell, who is from Liberia and 1913 during a stay in Tangier. There studying in Tangier for a university has not been a permanent chaplain degree in transport and logistics – since 1997 and the congregation quite a challenge as her studies are all now numbers a handful of ex-pats in French. and more than fifty migrant Africans Peter also enjoyed his visits to the most of them hoping that Tangier 11 British nationals behind bars in will be just a stopping place on the local jail, usually for attempting their way to the ‘promised land’ of to take drugs through customs. His Europe. Many try to find a way to weekly get-togethers with them cross the sea to Spain and sadly some included a Bible story and requests St Andrew’s Church, Tangier have drowned attempting it. Whilst for prayer and were much appreciated we were there one man told us he – as were the oranges, bananas and had set off in a boat with 34 others chocolate he took with him – and he A request for Bible Study and (at great cost) only to be picked up has a lovely card to prove it! Prayer led to a Lent course in church each Thursday morning. Two very keen members were Irwin and Jude – a couple newly retired and committed to living in Tangier. We were very saddened that within a month of meeting them Jude was diagnosed with terminal cancer. We left her still determined to stay in Tangier and with Alleluia on her lips. So far we are pleased to say the Bible study is continuing. We enjoyed the huge variety of fruit and vegetables and their prices! One kilogram of delicious strawberries at 80p! Also the availability of fresh fish was wonderful and we were grateful to two church members who introduced us to their favourite market traders. Most days we had time for a good walk along the promenade or beach although we appreciate the need to Peter with Rachell and friend at her baptism pray for much needed rain. DE6364 - TEA 54 June 2012 v2 REPRO.indd 4 10/05/2012 16:43:25 UP THERE THE AIR IS RARER! 5 C HURCH IN TH E C LOU D S “We’re a church with a difference” they told me. Then they explained that Andorra itself is a one-off. It is a fully fledged country with a seat at the UN yet only a little larger than the Isle of Wight or the county of Rutland with a population about the same as that of Bedford or Barnsley. The Principality, nominally ruled by the Roman Catholic Bishop of La Seo De Urguell with the President of France is perched on top of the Pyrenees.