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September 2022 September 2022
August. They were part of a DATES FOR
delegation of bishops and
spouses from Sudan and South
Sudan who were staying in YOUR DIARY
homes across Salisbury
diocese. As the Lambeth 2022
Conference of bishops and
spouses from across the
Anglican Communion drew to Floral Group Autumn Leaves Communibus Women’s Institute
a close in Canterbury on 7
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August, so many of the bishops Salt and Pepper Club Pop in Place Twinning Gardening Club
and spouses spent the
following week in their link
dioceses up and down the September
Church of England. And we
were amongst them, with 1st Talk and photographs on Dorset Village with Mary
Bishop Seme and Mary staying Graham
in Briantspuddle. Our Salisbury
Diocesan Link with Sudan and South Sudan is celebrating 50 years this year, and so 7th West Bay
how appropriate that over 40 Sudanese bishops and spouses were able to be
welcomed to Salisbury diocese.
They were, first of all, to rest, after a very intense conference in Canterbury, and 13th Marion Catt talk 2.00pm
then to be able to share something of the life of the church in their context with us
here. Many people gathered at St John the Baptist Church Bere Regis for the
Wednesday morning service of Holy Communion where Bishop Seme spoke of SP 15th Salt and Pepper Club
some of the joys and challenges of leading a diocese which is largely dispersed as
refugees because of Civil War, and asks us to pray for him and his diocese. 21st Wilton House Garden Centre
His diocese, the Diocese of Panyana is one of the 61 Dioceses of the Episcopal
Church of South Sudan. Just 30th Macmillan Coffee Morning, Village Hall 10-2
to put that in context, that is
bigger than the Church of
England, which has 42 October
dioceses. The church there
was planted by the Church
Missionary Society in 1917 5th Street Shopping Village
and has grown today to be
20 parishes and 45 6th Photographic Adventures on the Dorset Coast
congregations. Panyana
become a Diocese in 2016 11th Sandy Milne - workshop 2.00pm
and then in the same year
the crisis of civil war broke
out and pushed most the 20th Salt and Pepper Club
people of the Diocese of
Panyana out to Uganda and 21st Purbeck Film Festival evening in Briantspuddle Village
Hall. “Operation Mincemeat” (rating 12A)

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