St Mary’s University College, Twickenham hosted a successful assembly and conference of permanent deacons, their wives and others involved in the formation of deacons from Friday 24th – Sunday 26th June.  Those attending were mostly …

The Executive committee of the National Diaconate conference regret to announce that Deacon Len Matthews of the East Anglia diocese died peacefully on Monday 14 March. He was for many years Treasurer of the conference …

BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE OF ENGLAND AND WALES
COMMITTEE FOR MINISTERIAL FORMATION
ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF DIRECTORS OF THE PERMANENT DIACONATE AND DEACON DELEGATES
 Address by Rt Rev Terence Drainey, Bishop of Middlesbrough, 24 November 2010
 +Terry out lined his background and …

The Directory for the Formation of Permanent Deacons in England and Wales has been published by the Bishops’ Conference. This document operates within the parameters on the 1998 Basic Norms for the Formation of Permanent …

As you know every four years or so there is a national Assembly of Deacons in England and Wales; as some of you know unfortunately we had to cancel last autumn the weekend which would …

The National Directory and Norms received the approval of the Holy See ad experimentum for six years in 2005. It will be due for revision and re-submission in 2011. In May 2008, the Archbishop of …