The preparations for this year's Conference and Festival are entering their final stage. The contributors have been confirmed, and rooms have been allocated to all those registered for accommodation.
Below are attached 6 flyers to be used for the Conference/Festival 2016. Parishes and all who are involved in advertising the event can now choose which flyer to display.
This year we are not printing the flyers but encourage the parishes to print the amount they need.
This is the first announcement that the Annual Deanery Conference and Festival will take place from 27th to 30th May 2016, in High Leigh, Hoddesdon, Herts.
Theological Significance Of The Beauty Of Creation In The Orthodox Tradition - is the title of the talk that our Archbishop Job of Telmessos gave during the Deanery Conference 2015.
Please find the whole talk attached below as a pdf file.
The annual Conference and Festival of the Deanery of Great Britain and Ireland took place as usual on the last weekend of May, from the evening of Friday 22nd May to lunchtime on Monday 25th May. For the fourth year, it was held at a Christian Conference Centre to the north east of London. We share the Centre with other groups, though we have our own appointed rooms for services, talks and workshops.
For all the photos from the Conference 2015 taken by James Hyndman, please click here.
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REPORT ON DEANERY CONFERENCE AND FESTIVAL 22-25 MAY 2015
Once more members of the Deanery gathered at High Leigh, greeting familiar faces and learning to know new ones. Our theme was The Beauty of Holiness. It was appropriate then that at the centre of our programme were Saturday's Vigil and the Liturgy on Sunday. This year we had the joy of the presence of not only Archbishop Job but also Bishop John, who together concelebrated with 14 priests, a protodeacon and three deacons. During the Liturgy the Archbishop ordained two candidates, firstly as acolytes then as Readers; one then went on to be ordained Subdeacon.
Theological Significance Of The Beauty Of Creation In The Orthodox Tradition - is the title of the talk that our Archbishop Job of Telmessos gave during the Deanery Conference 2015.
The annual Conference and Festival of the Deanery of Great Britain and Ireland took place as usual on the last weekend of May, from the evening of Friday 22nd May to lunchtime on Monday 25th May. For the fourth year, it was held at a Christian Conference Centre to the north east of London. We share the Centre with other groups, though we have our own appointed rooms for services, talks and workshops.
The theme of the children's part of the Festival 2014 was Food, Glorious Food.