Weekly Notices | Sunday, 16 May 2021

Your weekly update from Portsmouth Cathedral.

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Weekly Notices | Sunday, 9 May 2021

Your weekly update from Portsmouth Cathedral.

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Portsmouth’s ‘Cathedral of the Sea’ offers new experiences for visitors and explorers from 17 May.

Portsmouth Cathedral is pleased to announce the reopening of the Cathedral to visitors and explorers from 17 May 2021, alongside launching exciting new visitor experiences created with funding from the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage.

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Weekly Notices | Sunday, 2 May 2021

Your weekly update from Portsmouth Cathedral.

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5 Places to grab a Coffee around Portsmouth Cathedral

As more restrictions ease and more of us are getting outside and exploring our city, it’s never been more important to find a good cup of coffee whilst on a walk.

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Tributes paid to Bishop Christopher as he steps down

It was the end of an era. As Bishop Christopher handed over his crozier and processed to the west door of our cathedral, it marked the end of his time as Bishop of Portsmouth.

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Friends of Portsmouth Cathedral | Programme for 2021

At our meeting on 26 March 2021 your Council discussed what programme of events might be feasible in 2021.

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Farewell to Bishop Christopher after 10 years serving our Diocese

The Bishop of Portsmouth, the Rt Rev Christopher Foster, will retire after a farewell service at Portsmouth Cathedral on April 24.

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Weekly Notices | Sunday, 25 April 2021

Your weekly update from Portsmouth Cathedral.

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Music News | Easter 2021

Although we had as near normal an Advent and Christmas as possible, we did not predict quite how the beginning of 2021 was destined to be, nor quite how restrictive new Government guidance as announced just after Epiphany.

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Did you know… The surrender of Southwick Priory in 1538

In April 1538, Prior Noxton (sometimes mistakenly called Norton), together with 12 canons, signed the surrender of his Priory, Our Lady of Southwick, to King Henry VIII, together with its manors and rectories in Hampshire - including the church of St Thomas in Portsmouth. This was part of the process we call the Reformation.

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Weekly Notices | Sunday, 18 April 2021

Your weekly update from Portsmouth Cathedral.

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Celebrate Earth Day – 22 April 2021

Since the first Earth Day in 1970, this organisation has sought to diversify, educate, and activate the environmental movement worldwide. We, at the Cathedral, have actively taken steps to help play our part in decreasing our carbon footprint and supporting biodiversity.

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Feeding back on our Cathedral Vision and Strategy Consultation 

On Tuesday 13 April we held an open session for all members of the Cathedral community on Zoom. At the event Dean Anthony and Richard Abraham, Chief Operating Officer, fed back how our community consultation helped to shape the Cathedral Vision statement (Portsmouth Cathedral: A beacon and safe haven, anchored in Jesus Christ) and the six strategic objectives.

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Special Service for HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Following the sad news of the death of HRH the Duke of Edinburgh yesterday, Portsmouth Cathedral will be holding a Choral Evensong in Commemoration and Thanksgiving for his life, this Sunday, 11 April at 7pm.

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The loss of the Wilhelmina J

Thirty years ago, on 9 April 1991, the trawler Wilhelmina J set out from Old Portsmouth to trawl for scallops in the English Channel. Shortly before 2am on 10 April, in thick fog off the Sussex coast, the boat was struck by the Zulfikar, a Cypriot cargo vessel.

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Weekly Notices | Sunday, 11 April 2021

Your weekly update from Portsmouth Cathedral.

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Statement from the Dean of Portsmouth

On this sad day for our nation and for Her Majesty the Queen, we at Portsmouth Cathedral join the rest of the people of this diocese in expressing our condolences as she mourns the death of her husband His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh. We assure her and all the members of the Royal family of our continuing prayers at this time.

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Did you know... The Greater Excommunication

Did you know on 5 April 1684, the evacuated Tangier Garrison landed in Portsmouth. How did this country come to have a garrison in North Africa?

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Weekly Notices | Easter Sunday, 4 April 2021

Your weekly update from Portsmouth Cathedral.

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