Cardinal Nichols (Westminster) Mon: Liaison Committee Meeting (day 1), Glasgow, 12.00pm. Wed: CCEE Presidents’ Meeting, Rome, all day. Thu: Meetings in Rome, all day. Fri: Archbishop’s Council Meeting, SW1P 1QJ, 9.30am. The Passage Carol Service, St Margaret’s Church, St Margaret Street, Westminster, London, SW1P 3JX, 6.00pm.
Archbishop Longley (Birmingham) Sun: Provincial Bishops’ Gathering, Clifton, 7.00pm. Mon: Provincial Bishops’ Gathering, Clifton. Our Lady of Guadalupe Feast Day Mass, Bedford, 7.00pm. Tue: Open New Build, ANAWIM, 11.00am. Father Hudson’s Care Trustees’ Meeting, Coleshill, 4.00pm. Thu: Joint Orthodox-Catholic Pastoral Forum, Oxford, 11.00am. Fri: Visits St Mary’s Hospice, Birmingham, 11.30am. Sat: Advent Carol Service, St Mary’s College, Oscott.
Archbishop McMahon (Liverpool) Mon: St Mary’s College Prizegiving, Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool, 7.00pm. Tue: Ushaw College Trustees Meeting, Durham, 11.00am. Wed: Merseyside Church Leaders Meeting, Bishop’s Lodge, Liverpool, 8.30am. Dementia Friendly Carol Service, Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool, 2.00pm. Thu: Archbishop’s Council, Archbishop’s House, 10.15am.
Archbishop Smith (Southwark) Mon: Joint Conferences of Bishops’ Liaison meeting, Glasgow, 1.00pm. Tue: Joint Conferences of Bishops’ Liaison meeting, Glasgow, 9.00am. Wed: Meeting, Archbishop’s House, 10.00am. Fri: PricewaterhouseCoopers Carol Service, Southwark Anglican Cathedral, 12 noon. Sat: Diaconal Ordinations, St John’s Seminary, Wonesh, 10.30am.
Bishop Arnold (Salford) Sun: Celebration of Mass with anointing, Little Sisters of the Poor Care Home, Longsight, 11.00am. Attends Advent Service in aid of Caritas Salford and Loaves & Fishes, Cathedral Church of St John, 7.30pm. Tue: Attends Ushaw Trustees meeting, Hinsley Hall, Leeds, 11.00am. Private meetings, Wardley Hall. Wed: Celebration of Mass with staff from Cathedral Centre, Cathedral Church of St John, 12.10pm. Attends Carols by Candlelight, Church of The Holy Name, Oxford Road, 7.00pm. Thu: Private engagements, Wardley Hall. Attends the Churches Together Christmas Service, Turf Moor, Burnley, 6.00pm.
Bishop Byrne (Birmingham) Sun: Parish Visitation & Confirmations, Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Rednal. Mon: Provincial Bishops’ Gathering, Clifton. Tue: Mass at St Paul’s School, Birmingham, 10.00am. Confirmatons, St Wulstan & St Thomas of Canterbury, Stourport, 7.00pm. Wed: Meeting with CTE General Secretary, Tavistock Square, London, 11.00am. Thu: Joint Orthodox-Catholic Pastoral Forum, Oxford, 11.00am. Sat: Christmas Lunch, St George’s Hub, Newtown Row, Birmingham, 1.00pm. Advent Carol Service, Oscott College, Birmingham, 6.00pm.
Bishop Campbell (Lancaster) Sun: Celebrates Confirmation, Sacred Heart, Thornton, am. Tue: Attends Ushaw Trustees meeting, Leeds, am. Thu: Attends Christmas production, Cathedral Catholic Primary School, Lancaster, pm.
Bishop Cunningham (Hexham and Newcastle) Mon: Attending People’s Kitchen Street Party, Trafalgar Street, Newcastle, 8.00pm. Tue: Attending Ushaw Trustees, Hinsley Hall, Leeds, 11.00am. Wed: Mass and Blessing of St Anthony’s School Chapel, Sunderland, 10.45am. Attending ‘The Event’ at St Joseph’s Academy, Hebburn, 6.00pm. Thu: Mass at Ss Joseph, Patrick and Cuthbert, Coxhoe for 50th Anniversary of Parish, 7.00pm. Sat: Penitential Service at St Mary’s Cathedral, Newcastle, 12.00pm.
Bishop Davies (Shrewsbury) Sun: Bishop’s Pastoral Visitation of Holy Apostles & Martyrs Parish-Masses 9.30am & 11.00am. Tue: Pastoral Visit of Ss Peter & Paul’s Catholic Primary School, New Brighton, 10.00am. Meetings Curial Offices, Birkenhead, 12.30pm. Wed: Carol Service, Stoke Heath Young Offenders Institute, 2.00pm. Thu-Sat: Preaching Retreat, Carmelite Monastery, Birkenhead. Fri: Appointments, Curial Offices, Birkenhead, am.
Bishop Doyle (Northampton) Sun: Visitation continues, St Teresa’s, Beaconsfield and St Dunstan’s, Bourne End. Tue: Safeguarding Commission meeting and lunch, Bishop’s House, 10.30am; Evening Carol Service, HMP Onley. Wed: Young@Heart Dementia Café launch, St John’s, Luton, 2pm. Thu: Tribunal meeting and lunch, Bishop’s House, 11.30am.
Bishop Drainey (Middlesbrough) Sun: Attends CAFOD Carol Service, St Charles Borromeo, Hull, 2.00pm. Tue: Attends meeting of Ushaw Trustees, Hinsley Hall, 11.00am. Wed: Attends meeting of Bishop’s Council, Curial Office, Middlesbrough, 11.00am; Attends Extraordinary Meeting of Council of Priests, Curial Office, Middlesbrough, 1.30pm. Thu: Attends meeting of Diocesan Trustees, St Mary’s Cathedral, Middlesbrough, 10.00am.
Bishop Egan (Portsmouth) Sun: Bishops’ Gathering, Bristol. Tue: Various meetings, Bishop’s House, Portsmouth. Thu: Bishop’s Council, Bishop’s House, Portsmouth.
Bishop Hendricks (Auxiliary in Southwark) Mon: Finance Meeting, Archbishop’s House, 11.00am. Tue: Head Teacher Induction, St James the Great School, Thornton Heath, 10.00am. Induction of Parish Priest, St Thomas Aquinas, Ham, 7.30pm.
Bishop Heskett (Hallam) Mon: CTSY meeting, Pastoral Centre, 7.15pm. Tue: Ushaw Trustees, Leeds. Wed: Mount St Mary’s College, Spinkhill, 8.30am. Health and Safety Committee meeting, Pastoral Centre, 5.00pm. Thu: St Mary’s High School Y12 Retreat, Hartington. Fri: Carol Service, HMP Moorland, 2.45pm.
Bishop Hopes (East Anglia) Sun: Mass for The Knights of St Columba followed by Provincial Meeting and lunch, Great Yarmouth, 11.00am. Mass for the Catholic Chaplaincy of the University of East Anglia, Norwich, 6.00pm. Mon: Engagements, White House, am. Tue: Engagements, White House, am. Bishop’s At Home, White House, 6.30pm. Wed: Engagements, White House, am. Annual Prize Evening at Notre Dame High School, Norwich, 7.30pm. Thu: Engagements, White House, am & pm.
Bishop Hudson (Auxiliary Bishop in Westminster) Sun: Celebrates Mass for 160th Anniversary, St Mary and St Michael, Commercial Road, 11.00am. Tue: Inaugural Meeting of the Trustees of the Culham Chapel Trust, Culham, 11.00am. Carols by Candlelight, St Dominic’s Sixth Form College, Harrow-on-the-Hill, 6.00pm. Thu: English Martyrs School Carol Service, English Martyrs Church, Tower Hill, 5.00pm. Fri: Archbishop’s Council Meeting, Archbishop’s House, 9.30am. Meeting in Our Lady, St John’s Wood, 4.00pm. Sat: Meeting in Archbishop’s House, 11.00am.
Bishop Kenney (Birmingham) Sun-Mon: Bishop’s Meeting, Clifton, 5.00pm. Mon: Kenelm Trust Dinner, 6.00pm. Wed: Deacons’ Christmas Dinner, Woodstock, 6.00pm.
Bishop Lang (Clifton) Sun: Visitation at St Nicks, Bristol, 10.00am.
Bishop Lynch (Auxiliary in Southwark) Sun: Visitation – St Benet’s, Abbey Wood. Wed: Lewisham Police Chief Superintendent’s Christmas Carols – Outside Lewisham Police Station, 7.00pm. Thu: Primary School Mass at St Matthew’s, Blackheath, 2.30pm. Interfaith Service, Lewisham, 6.00pm. Sat: Penitential Service, Lewisham, 11.30am.
Bishop McAleenan (Auxiliary Bishop in Westminster) Sun: Mass, Baldock, 10.30am. Meeting, WGC, 4.00pm. Tue: Meeting, Archbishop’s House, 3.00pm. Wed: Italian Chaplaincy, 6.00pm. Fri: Archbishop’s Council, 9.30am. Sat: Watford Meeting, 5.00pm.
Bishop McGough (Birmingham) Sun: Mass and Ubi Caritas Award Presentation, Our Lady and St Peter, Stoke, 10.30am. Provincial Bishops’ Gathering, Clifton, 7.00pm.
Bishop McKinney (Nottingham) Mon: Bishop’s Council, Bishop’s House, 11.00am. Wed: HMP Whatton Carol Service, 3.00pm; Cannons, St Barnabas Cathedral, 7.00pm. Thu: Chapter Meeting followed by Mass, Bishop’s House.
Bishop Malone (Liverpool) Thu: Archbishop’s Council, Archbishop’s House, 10.15am.
Bishop Mason (Auxiliary in Southwark) Sun: Induction of Parish Priest at Edenbridge, 10.00am. Mon: Meeting with KCSP at Teston. Wed: Meeting with KCSP at Teston. Thu: Mass at St Anselm’s Institute, 11.00am. Sat: Teams of our Lady Mass in Hexham and Newcastle.
Bishop Moth (Arundel and Brighton) Sun: Visitation at St Dunstan’s, Woking. Mon: Meetings, High Oaks, 8.30am; Mass, St Michael and St George’s Cathedral, Aldershot, 7.00pm. Tue: Pastoral Team Formation Meeting, Dabcec, 9.30am. Wed: Meetings, High Oaks, 10am; Nativity Play, Our Lady Queen of Heaven School, Crawley, 2.00pm. Thu: Episcopal Council Meeting, High Oaks, 11.00am; Visit to St John’s Seminarty, Wonersh, 3.30pm. Fri: Carol Service, HMP Highdown, 3.00pm.
Bishop O’Toole (Plymouth) Sun: Regional Bishop’s Meeting, St Ambrose, Clifton, 6.00pm. Tue: Engagements, Bishop’s House, Plymouth, All Day. Wed: Engagements, Bishop’s House, Plymouth, am. Attends dinner with Bishop Nick McKennel, Anglican Bishop of Plymouth, 7.00pm. Thu: Bishop’s Council Meeting, St Boniface House, Buckfast, 11.00am.
Bishop Sherrington (Auxiliary Bishop in Westminster) Sun: Parish visitation (day 2), St Luke, Pinner, all day. Wed: Diocesan Trustees Audit Committee, Archbishop’s House, 2.00pm. Neocatechumenal Initiation to Prayer Concluding Rite, Guardian Angels Church, Mile End, 7.30pm. Thu: Attends Nativity, St Anselm’s Catholic Primary School, Harrow-on-the-Hill, 2.00pm. Fri: Archbishop’s Council Meeting, 9.30am. Service of Reconciliation, Church of Mary, Mother of God, Ponders End, 7.30pm. Sat: Solemn Consecration of the Church of the Holy Hierarch Cyril, Bishop of Turau and all the Patron Saints of the Belarusian People, North Finchley, 10.30am.
Bishop Stock (Leeds) Sun: Mass for the 40th Anniversary of the Polish Catholic Church in Leeds, Our Lady of Czestochowa and St Stanislaw Kostka, 6a Harehills Lane, Leeds, LS7 4EY, 11.00am. Advent Carol Service, Leeds Cathedral, Great George Street, Leeds, LS2 8BE, 4.00pm. Meeting at St John Fisher Catholic High School, Oxford Road, Dewsbury, WF13 4LL, 7.00pm. Tue: Meeting of the Trustees of Ushaw College, Hinsley Hall, Leeds, 11.00am. Wed: Meeting with Vicar General, Bishop’s House, Leeds, 9.00am. Meeting of Catholic Care Trustees, Hinsley Hall, Leeds, 11.00am. Council of Priests, Hinsley Hall, Leeds, 2.00pm. Thu: Confessions, Leeds Cathedral, Great George Street, Leeds, LS2 8BE, 8.00am. Curia Staff Communication Meeting, Hinsley Hall, Leeds, 10.00am. Carol Service, HMP Wealstun Prison, Thorpe Arch, Wetherby, LS23 7AZ, 1.00pm. Sat: Mass and Parish Visitation, St Clare’s, Moorside Road, Fagley, Bradford, BD2 3JE, 5.30pm.
Bishop Williams (Brentwood) Wed: Meetings, Cathedral House, all day. Thu: Meetings, Cathedral House. Fri: Meetings, Cathedral House, am. Attends staff lunch, Cathedral House. Meetings, Cathedral House, pm. Sat: Celebrates Mass, HMP Chelmsford, 9.00am.
Bishop Williams (Auxiliary Bishop in Liverpool) Sun: Confirmation, Holy rosary, Aintree Village, 10.30am. ‘Light up a Life’ Service, St Joseph’s Hospice, Thornton, 3.30pm. Mon: Carol Service, HM Prison Wymott, 1.15pm. Tue: HCPT Carol Service, Westminster Cathedral, 7.00pm. Wed: Dementia Friendly Carol Service, Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool, 2.00pm. Thu: Archbishop’s Council, Archbishop’s House, 10.15am. Fri: Nugent ‘Light up a Life’ Service, Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool, 12.30pm.
Bishop Wilson (Auxiliary Bishop in Westminster) Sun: Hampton Hill, St Francis de Sales, 9.00am. Tue: Hounslow Deanery, 11.00am. Wed: Meeting, Archbishop’s House, 11.30am. RCIA Meeting, Westminster Cathedral, 7.00pm. Thu: St John XXIII Catholic Primary School, 12.30pm. Fri: Archbishop’s Council, Archbishop’s House, 9.30am. Meeting, Archbishop’s House, 2.00pm. Church of Our Lady, St Johns Wood, 4.00pm. Sat: Acton, 9.00am.
WALES
Bishop Brignall (Wrexham) Tue: Finance Secretariat, Curial Offices, 11.30am; Diocesan Trustees’ meeting, Bishop’s House, 1.30pm. Thu: Talk at Dolgellau, Carmel, 1pm. Fri: Meeting, Bishop’s House, 11am.
Bishop Burns (Menevia) Sun: Bishops’ Meeting, Clifton, 7.00pm. Mon: Bishop Vaughan School’s Annual Carol Service, St Joseph’s Cathedral, Swansea, 7.00pm.
SCOTLAND
Archbishop Cushley (St Andrews & Edinburgh) Sun: Gaudete Sunday Mass, St Margaret’s, South Queensferry, 10am.Tue: Chapter Mass, St Mary’s Metropolitan Cathedral, Edinburgh, 12.45pm. Fri: SCIAF board meeting and Mass, Glasgow, 9.45am. Sat: Christmas Reception, City Chambers, Edinburgh, 7.30pm.
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