As decision day for the controversial Ripon Cathedral annexe planning application approaches, more than 40 'Save our Trees' campaigners held a peaceful protest march through the city today...
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Campaigners take their ‘save our trees’ plea to Ripon city centre
As decision day for the controversial Ripon Cathedral annexe planning application approaches, more than 40 'Save our Trees' campaigners held a peaceful protest march through the city today (Saturday) The march, attended by some of the 2,300 people who have signed the...
Gallery: Ripon’s Palm Sunday procession heralds the start of Holy Week
Blessed with bright spring sunshine, today's annual Palm Sunday procession from Ripon Market Square to the city's magnificent cathedral, heralded the start of Holy Week. With Easter Sunday just a week away, people of all denominations congregated on the square for an...
New lighting being installed outside Harrogate church
New lighting is being installed on the driveway to a Harrogate church. Ten low level lighting bollards are being placed along the grass at the side of a pavement leading to St John’s Church in Bilton. Simon Dowson, rector at St John’s, said: “Currently the church...
Ripon Civic Society raises concerns about £8m cathedral development
The validity of the ongoing consultation on Ripon Cathedral's controversial annexe plans has come under further scrutiny. A complaint about the way in which the programme of drop-in sessions at the cathedral are being run has been sent to North Yorkshire planners by...
VIDEO: Pan-tastic turn out for Ripon’s Shrove Tuesday spectacle
There was no room for clerical errors when the Dean of Ripon the Very Revd John Dobson and his cathedral colleagues lined-up for the start of the annual Shrove Tuesday pancake race today. This morning's prelude to Lent and tomorrow's Ash Wednesday services across the...
Hundreds join in Ripon Cathedral’s annual pilgrimage to Fountains Abbey
It was the perfect day for a pilgrimage and hundreds turned up at Ripon Cathedral this morning to take part in the four-mile walk of faith to Fountains Abbey. The annual St Stephen's Day trek from Ripon Cathedral to Fountains Abbey, attracted family groups,...
We need to work hard and intentionally to be kind, help each other and build up community
Our Christmas message this year comes from the Bishop of Ripon, the Rt Revd Anna Eltringham. On behalf of the whole team at The Stray Ferret we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a happy, peaceful 2024. In my last church, when I was a new vicar, I soon learnt there...
Ripon’s Boxing Day pilgrims won’t have to pay for entrance to Fountains Abbey
The annual Boxing Day pilgrimage from Ripon Cathedral to Fountains Abbey will be held on Tuesday (December 26), As in previous years, pilgrims who take part in the four-mile walk, starting from outside the Cathedral at 10.15am, will not have to pay to enter the World...
Organ donation brings £350,000 instrument to Ripon church
St Wilfrid's on Coltsgate Hill, Ripon, has received an amazing early Christmas gift - an organ worth £350,000. The Grade II listed church, which is among the city's architectural gems and described as one of the finest Catholic parish churches in England, has taken...
Warm welcome at evensong for new Bishop of Ripon
The newly-appointed Bishop of Ripon received a warm welcome at a special choral evensong service yesterday. For the Rt Revd Anna Eltringham the service, at which she and six others were installed as canons of the cathedral, provided an opportunity to meet for the...
Ethical dilemmas to be discussed in Pateley Bridge
Sex, death, war and artificial intelligence will be discussed in a series of monthly Food for Thought talks by a leading theologian in Pateley Bridge. Dr Peter Vardy, who has written extensively on religion and ethics and was vice-principal of Heythrop Jesuit College...
Anna Eltringham announced as new Bishop of Ripon
The Reverend Canon Anna Eltringham has been named as the new Bishop of Ripon this morning. Downing Street announced at 10am the King had approved the nomination of Rev Canon Eltringham, who is currently team rector for Oxted, in the diocese of Southwark. Rt Revd Nick...
