Announcement of Petertide Ordinations

With great joy I announce the following persons are to be ordained this Petertide:

Sacred Order of Deacon

Mr Chris Nicholls (to serve as assistant curate of Holy Trinity, Utrecht)
by Bishop Geoffrey on Sunday 27 June at 1500 (3 pm) in Holy Trinity Church, Utrecht. The street address for the Church is Holy Trinity Church, Van Limburg – Stirumplein, (Vicinity Wilhemina Park), Utrecht, The Netherlands. For further details please contact the Venerable John de Wit on +31 30 251 34 24, or email: chaplain@holytrinityutrecht.nl. Liturgical colour: white

Sacred Order of Priest

The Revd Rik Florentinus (assistant curate of Christ Church, Amsterdam)
By Bishop Geoffrey on Saturday 26 June at 1500 (3 pm) in Christ Church, Amsterdam. The street address for the Church is Christ Church, Groenburgwal 42, 1011 HW Amsterdam, The Netherlands. For further details please contact the Revd Alistair MacDonald on +31 20 624 8877, or email: alastair@christchurch.nl.
Liturgical colour: white

The Revd Tony Lane (assistant curate of St Thomas’s, Crete within the Greater Athens Chaplaincy)
The Revd Tuomas Mäkipää (assistant curate of St Nicholas’s, Helsinki)
By Bishop David on Saturday 3 July at 1800 (6 pm) in St Thomas’s Church, Chania, Crete. The location of the Church can be found by referring to the church website:
http://www.theanglicanchurchincrete.co.uk/FindingContactUs.html. For further details please contact the Revd Tony Lane at + 30 28250 22345, or email: creteanglicans@yahoo.co.uk. Liturgical colour: red

All are warmly invited to attend these celebrations.

Clergy are invited to robe (please note the liturgical colour for each service above) and join in procession. Priests of the Church of England or of a Church in communion are invited to join in the laying-on-of-hands at the ordination of priests. Please plan to arrive at least ½ hour before the appointed service time.

Please announce these ordinations in your churches and congregations so that the candidates can be upheld in your prayers as they make their final preparations towards ordination as deacon or priest.

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