{"id":627,"date":"2014-12-05T23:42:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T23:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?page_id=627"},"modified":"2025-08-14T13:31:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:31:44","slug":"the-wider-church","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/stwilfrids-church.co.uk\/?page_id=627","title":{"rendered":"The Wider Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Deanery and Diocese<\/h2>\n

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The parish of St Wilfrid\u2019s is part of the Church of England. It is within the Southwell and Nottingham Diocese and is part of the Gedling Deanery.<\/p>\n

The Church of England has more than 12,000 parishes and an average attendance of more than 1 million people each week. Southwell and Nottingham diocese has 263 parishes and an average weekly attendance of more than 18,000 people.<\/p>\n

Our Diocesan Bishop is the Rt Revd Paul Williams. He is assisted by a Suffragan bishop, the Rt Revd Andy Emerton and two Archdeacons. The Venerable Phil Williams is Archdeacon of Nottingham area and The Venerable Tors Ramsey is Archdeacon for Newark area.<\/p>\n

The diocese is governed by the Bishop through Bishop\u2019s Council and the Diocesan Synod.<\/p>\n

The Deanery also has a Deanery Synod. Three members of St Wilfrid\u2019s church and the clergy are members of the Deanery Synod. The Deanery Synod elects members to the Diocesan Synod.<\/p>\n

Further information about the Diocese can be found at www.southwell.anglican.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Information about the Church of England can be found at www.cofe.anglican.org<\/p>\n

Christians Together in Calverton<\/h2>\n

St. Wilfrid\u2019s enjoys a good relationship with the Baptist, Methodist and Roman Catholic churches and other Christians in the village. There is ministry and lay representation on a \u2018Christians Together in Calverton\u2019 group that organise regular joint events. These \u00a0include prayer times, community events, outreach and schools work and supporting charities such as Toilet Twinning and Christian Aid. The CCT choir puts on a summer and Christmas production every year.<\/p>\n

Regular events:<\/strong><\/p>\n

2nd Thursday of the month at 12noon - Calverton Village Prayer<\/p>\n

Lent reflection and lunch from 12noon<\/p>\n

Village Get Together\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Christmas Tree Festival<\/p>\n

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Worldwide charities we support<\/h2>\n

As a church community we support many charities throughout the year:<\/p>\n

Fairtrade<\/p>\n

Toilet Twinning<\/p>\n

Christian Aid<\/p>\n

Children's Society<\/p>\n

Royal British Legion<\/p>\n

We also have specific times in our church year when we focus on charities that we support through prayer and giving<\/p>\n

In 2025 these will be Arocha, Prison Fellowship and Pakari Christian Trust<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Deanery and Diocese The parish of St Wilfrid\u2019s is part of the Church of England. It is within the Southwell and Nottingham Diocese and is part of the Gedling Deanery. The Church of England has more than 12,000 parishes and an average attendance of more than 1 million people each week. Southwell and Nottingham […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-627","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stwilfrids-church.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stwilfrids-church.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stwilfrids-church.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stwilfrids-church.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stwilfrids-church.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/stwilfrids-church.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6374,"href":"http:\/\/stwilfrids-church.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/627\/revisions\/6374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stwilfrids-church.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}