Our Diocesan Women’s Ministry Advisors are inviting women across the diocese to an online meeting to discuss the next Bishop of Leeds, as part of our Vacancy in See public consultation.

The meeting will take place on Monday, July 28, at 7pm on Zoom.

It will be an opportunity for people to discuss about what the next Bishop of Leeds should be like, and to respond to our consultation.

Our public consultation is asking people to answer three questions about our new bishop and the future of our diocese, which are:

• What are your three hopes for the future of the church in your community?
• What three words describe the main skills and qualities the next Bishop of Leeds needs to have, to help us grow in confidence as a diocese?
• What is the one thing you want to say to the next Bishop of Leeds?

The responses will help form a document called a Statement of Needs, which is a detailed profile of who we are as a diocese, our mission and ministry, and our hopes for the future.  

This document will guide the recruitment process, shaping the search for the person who is called to be our next bishop.

Our Diocesan Women’s Ministry Advisors work as a team to promote full inclusion of women at every level of church life and to advocate for women’s ministry in the diocese, and they are keen to encourage women’s voices in this consultation.

If you’d like to join the meeting, please email Catherine.Shelley@leeds.anglican.org for the Zoom link.

Our online form for the public consultation can be found here.

As part of the consultation process, we have produced postcards with the questions on them which are being sent to every church, which can be filled in by hand and are pre-addressed to be posted back to Church House in Leeds.

Alongside these we have produced and are sending a poster advertising the consultation to every church, with a QR code to access the online form on it.

More on the Vacancy in See process can be found here.

More on women’s ministry can be found here.