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  • Sermon Given at the Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace, Good Friday 2017

    Friday, 14th April 2017

    Sermon given by The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster.

  • Sermon Given at the Evensong with The London Mayors

    Sunday, 16th October 2016

    Sermon given by The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster.

  • Sermon Given at The Chapel Royal St James's Palace on Good Friday 2016

    Friday, 25th March 2016

    Sermon given by The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster.

  • Sermon in the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace, on Good Friday 2019

    Friday, 19th April 2019

    Sermon in the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace on Good Friday 2019: The passion and death of our Lord Jesus Christ stand at the centre of our historic inheritance in this country..

  • Address given by the Prime Minister on the fifth anniversary of the attacks on Westminster Bridge and in New Palace Yard

    Tuesday, 22nd March 2022

    Address given by the Prime Minister on the fifth anniversary of the attacks on Westminster Bridge and in New Palace Yard: 'Death is swallowed up in victory.' I want to begin by.

  • Address given at a Service of Commemoration to mark the 5th anniversary of the terrorist attack on Westminster Bridge and in New palace Yard

    Tuesday, 22nd March 2022

    Address given at a Service of Commemoration to mark the 5th anniversary of the terrorist attack on Westminster Bridge and in New palace Yard: Today is a day to unite against evil..

  • Sermon preached at Evensong on the feast of the Dedication of Westminster Abbey 2025

    Sunday, 19th October 2025

    The London Mayors come to Westminster Abbey.

  • Sermon Given at Evensong Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Re-organisation of Local Government in London

    Sunday, 8th March 2015

    Sermon given by The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster.

  • Sermon at the Solemn Evensong of Thanksgiving for the Canonisation of St Oscar Romero

    Saturday, 17th November 2018

    We celebrate today the canonisation of St Oscar Romero, Bishop and Martyr, that took place in Rome on 14th October 2018.

  • Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist on All Souls' Day 2025

    Monday, 3rd November 2025

    This is a place of death and a place of life.

  • Bishop of London reads for Abbey podcast

    Sunday, 17th May 2020

    The Bishop of London, who is leading the Church of England’s response to the coronavirus, has recorded a reading for the Abbey’s latest podcast.

    Abbeycast COVID-19 Bishop of London

  • Consecration of the Bishop of Sherborne

    Friday, 26th June 2009

    The Reverend Canon Dr Graham Kings, Vicar of St Mary's Church, Islington, was ordained to the episcopate as the new Suffragan Bishop of Sherborne by the Archbishop of Canterbury and other bishops at a Eucharist in the Abbey on Wednesday 24th June 2009.

    Bishop of Sherborne

  • The Queen's organ (Mander, 2013)

    The Queen's organ (Mander, 2013): The Queen’s Organ was the welcome result of collaboration between the Lord Mayor of London, the City of London Corporation, and the Dean and Chapter of Westminster..

  • Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lectures

    Eric Abbott was Dean of Westminster between 1959 and 1974. His friends set up a memorial trust to provide for an annual lecture on spirituality.

  • One People Oration 2019

    Monday, 21st October 2019

    There are many churches and cathedrals in the world, some of which are more beautiful, more ancient, more glorious than Westminster Abbey.

    One People Oration

  • Bishop of Rambsury consecrated

    Friday, 21st September 2012

    The Reverend Canon Dr Edward Condry, Canon Treasurer of Canterbury Cathedral, was ordained to the episcopate as the new Suffragan Bishop of Ramsbury in the Diocese of Salisbury by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Dr Rowan Williams, Primate of All England and Metropolitan, and other bishops at a Eucharist in Westminster Abbey on Friday 21st September 2012.

    Consecration of Bishops Bishop of Ramsbury

  • 28th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

    Thursday, 2nd May 2013

    Dame Averil Cameron gives the 28th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture on Constantine's Vision and the Church Today - From the Battle of the Milvian Bridge (AD 312) to the twenty-first century.

  • History of Westminster Abbey

    An architectural masterpiece of the 13th to 16th centuries, Westminster Abbey houses tombs and memorials to kings and queens and the famous and the great.

    Architecture Christianity

  • Sermon Given at the Sung Eucharist on the Third Sunday of Epiphany 2016

    Sunday, 24th January 2016

    Sermon given by The Reverend David Stanton, Canon Treasurer and Almoner.

  • Consecration of the Bishop of Shrewsbury

    Wednesday, 28th October 2009

    The Reverend Mark Rylands, Canon Missioner for Exeter Diocese and Cathedral, was ordained and consecrated to the episcopate as Suffragan Bishop of Shrewsbury by the Archbishop of Canterbury and other bishops at a Eucharist in the Abbey on Wednesday 28th October 2009.

    Bishop of Shrewsbury

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