Following the diocesan Fit for Mission? parish review and the decisions of Bishop Patrick O’Donoghue (announced on 21/22 February 2009) affecting the linking and merging of parishes in the Diocese and other pastoral reorganisation and after consulting with the Council of Priests (23 February 2009 & 25 March 2009) and others, it is hereby decreed that the three Deaneries of Preston should be revised so as to strengthen the fostering of “pastoral care through common action” (Canon 374 s1):Given the above reasons and the new circumstances in which we find ourselves the existing three Preston Deaneries – English Martyrs, Preston, St Walburge, Preston and St Augustine, Preston shall be merged into one new deanery as one from the First Sunday of Advent (29 November 2009).
Click here for the Decree merging the 3 Deanery's from Bishop Campbell
(from the Diocesan website)
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