Bermondsey Deanery

Coat of Arms of the old Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey

A Deanery Synod has been described as 'a group of Anglicans waiting to go home', but our deanery here in Bermondsey is a lot better than that.

It helps that we are a small deanery, seven parishes, plus the Norwegian Church and the Finnish Church. We get to know each other. and enjoy each other's company.

We just about cover the whole spectrum of the Church of England, but we get on well, and we all have in common the fact that we serve this unique corner of God's world, called Bermondsey and Rotherhithe.

Yesterday it was announced that Bishop Christopher had appointed me as Area Dean of Bermondsey, to succeed my next door neighbour, Mark Nicholls, our previous dean and Rector of St Mary, Rotherhithe.

It's a great honour and I am looking forward to continuing to enjoy friendship and fellowship with my fellow clergy in the chapter, and working alongside, Adrian Greenwood, Lay Chair of the Deanery Synod, who does so much to ensure our deanery synods are worth attending.