Read on to discover all the latest news, updates and information from Wakefield Cathedral, including upcoming events, important information and weekly reflections from our clergy.
07 March 2025
This coming Sunday, 09 March, marks Women Composers Sunday. This initiative, which encourages choirs to perform music by women composers on the Sunday closest to International Women’s Day, was launched in 2021 by the Royal College of Organists and the Society of Women Organists, of which our Assistant Director of Music, Alana Brook, is a prominent member.
07 March 2025
I do hope your pancakes on Tuesday did not resemble the ashes you may have seen and had marked on your forehead on Wednesday.
28 February 2025
I had a great weekend last weekend. It is not often I get to say that – also because in English culture, I have discovered, people are rather reluctant to admit that something might have been really good.
28 February 2025
It’s ok, there isn’t really a TV competition about gardening but maybe there should be?
28 February 2025
Next week Megan Nerlich will join the cathedral team for eight weeks on a full-time placement. Megan lives and studies in Munich, and her course of study involves a period living and volunteering abroad.
27 February 2025
You will have seen the news that our Dean is to retire at the end of July.
27 February 2025
Lent begins this week, a season of spiritual focus in preparation for Easter.
27 February 2025
The Chapter – or Board of Trustees – of Wakefield Cathedral held their latest meeting on Wednesday February 26. Key agenda items included a ‘deep dive’ into mission and outreach, discussions of how we manage risk, as well as the usual in-depth discussions on finance and safeguarding, and review of regular reports from various committees and the senior management team.
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