The latest edition of an information bulletin from the Diocese of Glasgow & Galloway:
Bishop Kevin Pearson: a message to the Diocese
The Most Rev Kevin Pearson – currently Bishop of Argyll & the Isles and due to take up post as Bishop of Glasgow & Galloway on July 1 – writes: Dear Friends, I hope you are all well and that this lockdown is not too difficult for you, your families, and friends. I am very…
Bishop Kevin Pearson: reflections and manifesto
The Most Rev Kevin Pearson – currently Bishop of Argyll & the Isles and due to take up post as Bishop of Glasgow & Galloway on July 1 – shares his thoughts with the Diocese: Dear Friends, I believe in God. I believe in the Scottish Episcopal Church. I believe in the Diocese of Glasgow…
Bishop Kevin Pearson: a message from his wife, Dr Elspeth Atkinson
I am looking forward very much to meeting you all, to joining you in worship and to visiting your churches. I am very sad that the Covid-19 restrictions have delayed our move to Glasgow and Galloway. I hope it will not be too long before we can move house and meet you all, even if we have to…
Diocese to set up HQ in empty Merchant City shop
A shop that has lain empty in the city’s Italian Centre for a decade is set to become a church headquarters, Glasgow Live reports. The shop on Cochrane Street in the Merchant City will be refurbished for the United Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway after planning permission for the listed building was granted. New designs…
Bishops begin planning for reopening churches
The message from the Scottish Government remains ‘stay at home’ and our church buildings remain closed to protect the vulnerable, but thinking is underway to address how the Scottish Episcopal Church will respond to the eventual easing of restrictions on movement. The First Minister announced last week that lockdown measures to prevent the spread of…
A final word from the Primus
The Most Rev Mark Strange brings the Diocese up to date with current matters in his last letter as Interim Bishop before the installation of Bishop Kevin Pearson.
New bishop to be instituted ‘by deed’
The Rt Rev Kevin Pearson, currently Bishop of Argyll & the Isles, will become Bishop of Glasgow & Galloway on July 1 ‘by deed’ – that is, by agreement of his fellow bishops – with his scheduled consecration at St Mary’s Cathedral having been ruled out by measures to combat Covid-19. The current acting Bishop…
New Bishop elected for Glasgow and Galloway
The Right Reverend Kevin Pearson was today elected as the new Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway. Bishop Kevin is currently the Bishop of Argyll and The Isles and his election to Glasgow and Galloway represents a historic “translation” of a Bishop from one See to another. The See of Glasgow and Galloway became vacant in…
Holy Cross Memorial Garden to be dedicated at new location in Hyndland
A dedication service for the Memorial Garden of the former Holy Cross Episcopal Church in Knightswood will be held on February 8 at the Garden’s new location in the grounds of St Bride’s, Hyndland. All are invited. The Diocese announced in April last year that the Garden would be moved, with proper reverence, following the deconsecration of Holy Cross.
News from the Diocesan Office: December 2019
The latest edition of an information bulletin from the Diocese of Glasgow & Galloway.
New bishop: no news yet
The Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway is no closer to having a new bishop. The Church’s Primus, Most Rev Mark Strange, wrote in an open letter to the Diocese on November 25: My Dear Friends in Glasgow and Galloway I know that many of you have been holding the College of Bishops in prayer as…
Bishops take from Diocese the right to elect a new bishop for Glasgow & Galloway
Statement from the Scottish Episcopal Church: It has become clear that the Preparatory Committee for the Episcopal Vacancy in the Diocese of Glasgow & Galloway will be unable to present a short list of a minimum of three names from which a new Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway could be elected by the Electoral Synod….
News from the Diocesan Office and Diocesan Council: May 2019
The first edition of what’s intended to be a quarterly bulletin from the Diocese.
Diocese given go-ahead to move cremated remains from memorial garden at Holy Cross, Knightswood
A church has created legal history by winning a court order to carry out a mass exhumation of cremated remains from a memorial garden, The Scotsman reports. The Scottish Episcopal Church has been granted permission to excavate the land at Glasgow’s former Holy Cross Church and replant it at another site. The Knightswood church shut…
Diocesan Lent Appeal in aid of Malawi hospital
This year’s Diocesan Lent Appeal will strike a chord with the All Saints congregation, which for many years supported St Peter’s Hospital on Likoma Island, Lake Malawi.
Dean is appointed new Provincial Director of Ordinands
Very Rev Ian Barcroft has been appointed as the Scottish Episcopal Church’s new full-time Provincial Director of Ordinands with effect from 1 June 2019. Ian has served as rector of St Mary’s, Hamilton, since 1997, and as Dean of Glasgow and Galloway since 2010.
Synod fails to elect a new Bishop
A meeting on March 16 of the Electoral Synod of the Diocese of Glasgow & Galloway could not achieve a majority vote for a new Bishop to succeed the Rt Rev Dr Gregor Duncan, who retired in October 2018.
Bishop Gregor Duncan – a ministry in pictures
Bishop Gregor Duncan retired on October 11 – his 68th birthday. This video shows him laying down his crozier at a valedictory Evensong at St Mary’s Cathedral on the previous Sunday, and the gallery below illustrating his ministry was compiled by the Diocese.
Change of date for Evensong in October
October’s Sung Evensong at All Saints will take place at 6.30 pm on the 14th of the month instead of the 7th to avoid coinciding with a Valedictory Evensong for Bishop Gregor Duncan.
Bishop Gregor to retire
Bishop Gregor Duncan is to retire on October 11 – his 68th birthday – after more than eight years in office. He offered his valedictory words to the Diocesan Synod in Kilmarnock on May 12: “As St Paul might have put it, be more and more what you already are – called and loved into…
Easter message from Bishop Gregor Duncan
Some of you may listen to a Radio 4 programme called Last Word. In effect it offers appreciations and assessments of interesting people who have died in the week or so before the programme is broadcast. As I write, the cast includes Stephen Hawking and Ken Dodd. But it occurs to me that it’s an…
Bishop’s Lent Appeal 2018 in aid of motor neurone disease sufferers
Selection is in memory of former diocesan secretary Chris Zochowski, who died of MND in January.
Bishop Gregor’s Christmas message
St John 1.14: ‘and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us …’ We’re all familiar with slogans, mottoes, catchphrases, strap lines, by which institutions or political parties or campaigning groups like to promote themselves, their claims, their values among the rest of us. Some of them may strike us as important and even challenging…
Official report on Diocesan Synod 2017
The Dean, Very Revd Ian Barcroft presided at the Synod Eucharist and read the Bishop’s Charge on behalf of Bishop Gregor who could not be there as he was still recovering at home from a stroke. The elections to various positions were undertaken early in the agenda before the main topic on the agenda, changes…
Bishop Gregor Duncan’s message for Christmas 2016
As I write, the clocks have gone back and things are getting darker. People now talk of light deprivation as a medical condition and it does seem that some of us are susceptible to all of that. But, at this time of the year, there’s a lot of extra light around. Crowds of people out…
Glasgow kids’ holiday scheme set up by Episcopalian still going strong 60 years on
In the mid 1960s Tricia McConalogue was an 11-year-old girl living in the Gorbals. Her father worked as a bricklayer but money was tight and the family could not afford an annual holiday. Like many other families, they would manage a day away from time to time but in the main, Tricia rarely strayed far…
‘Richness, colour and not a little personal prejudice’
Bishop Gregor Duncan promises some highly personal views in June when he presents his annual lecture on the relevance of our Episcopalian liturgy to the people around us. Can it introduce them to the living God? What about its language, its ceremony, its symbolism; does it connect or does it alienate; does it express a…
Scottish Episcopal Church to debate changes to marriage canon
A proposal to amend the marriage canon to permit same sex weddings in churches will be considered by the General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church next month, writes Gavin Drake. The proposed changes, which were requested by the Synod in 2015, remove the current definition of marriage in the first clause of the canon…
Christmas message from Bishop Gregor Duncan
At times it is hard to think that the world we live in is anything other than very dark, writes Bishop Gregor Duncan. All around us are threats to life – climate change, terrorism, civil wars, genocidal campaigns, corruption, failed and failing states, appalling abuse, not least of women and children – the list is…
