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.
21 February 2025
Some of you might have seen the advance notice of an event that we are hosting in the cathedral on 09 April. The Eco Group, with the support of Just transition Wakefield, are showing the film Six inches of Soil, a film which, as the name suggests, is about the importance of good quality soil in our lives.
17 February 2025
Yesterday Simon Cowling, Dean of Wakefield in the Diocese of Leeds, Church of England, announced he will retire on 31 July.
Dean Simon took up his post in September 2018, having previously served in parish and cathedral ministry in Leeds, Sheffield and North Yorkshire.
07 February 2025
Earlier this week I found myself attending a meeting of cathedral precentors at Westminster Abbey. Not in the Abbey itself, however, but in a rather impressive room known as the Jerusalem Chamber.
31 January 2025
When I mentioned the RSPB centre at St Aiden’s and Fairburn Ings the other week I had forgotten that we in Wakefield can bird-watch at Pugney’s Country Park.
31 January 2025
A couple of weeks ago late one evening our next-door neighbour’s dog started barking. It barked and barked until I was about to get out of bed and then it stopped.
24 January 2025
On January 26 of every year, International Environmental Education Day is celebrated and utilised to be the day of support and service to our mother nature.
24 January 2025
Perhaps I should introduce myself. I am Erik Peeters, the new Residentiary Canon at the cathedral and Lay Training Officer with the Diocese. As I write this, I find I am in an odd place – both excited and a little terrified by the fact that my family and I are making a new start, again.
17 January 2025
What do you say to people in mid-January? In December you can ask people about their Christmas plans (having complained in October that the shops are already selling mince pies!).
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