Yorkshire has become the first place to vote for women to become bishops by the end of the year
03 March 2014
The Bishop of Ripon & Leeds John Packer who retired from the House of Lords on Friday says in a Church of England interview published today that campaigning on Welfare Reform must continue.
28 January 2014
The Queen has said yes to a new single diocese in England for West Yorkshire and the Dales to replace the three existing dioceses of Bradford, Wakefield, Ripon and Leeds.
11 October 2013
Issues of Islamaphobia, racism, class and culture were placed under searching and scientific scrutiny when Professor Tahir Abbas, Professor of Sociology at Fatih University, Istanbul gave the latest St Wilfrid lecture
20 September 2013
Six years after clubbing the night away in Leeds as a student, a young Anglican pastor is returning to her former haunts – as "pioneering minister" to the night-time economy.
07 September 2011
The Dioceses Commission has today published an interim progress report on its review of the Dioceses of Bradford, Ripon and Leeds, Sheffield and Wakefield
27 July 2011
New guidance aimed at preventing sham marriages in the Church of England is being sent to clergy and legal officers by the House of Bishops. The guidance has been agreed with the UK Border Agency and was today approved by Immigration Minister Damian Green.
12 April 2011