Deanery Conference & Festival 2025 (main)

Deanery Conference & Festival 2025
4 p.m. Friday, 23th May to 12 noon Monday, 26th May
at The High Leigh Conference Centre
Lord Street, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire EN11 8SG

Theme: 'Preaching the Gospel to all creation: vocation & witness at a time of ecological crisis'

All the accommodation is en suite, at a cost per adult of £295, and £50 per child aged 6-16 years (infants are free). 
For a day or one-night visits, please write to the organisers.
There is a minimum deposit required of £50. If you can pay more than £50, then please do; the amount of any bursary required - to meet the total cost - should be specified on the application form, and then please inform your parish priest of your request.  Bursaries are granted with the support of your parish priest, and the agreement of our Treasurer(s).
You will NOT be guaranteed a place if you have not paid in full by the 12th of May.

Applications for this event are now closed: however, should you still be interested in any places that may become available (due to last minute cancellations etc.) then please notify us of your interestby filling this FORM, giving us your contact details, and preferably including a phone number; we will only contact you if we do have a space available.

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  This year's event is a successor to many years of similar events, and those older attenders may remember the Diocesan Conference (at Effingham) in 1990, when the theme was, 'Ecology: Theology of Creation': we have the transcript of Metropolitan Anthony's concluding talk here.  We also have a sermon given by Bishop Basil [Osborne] in 1992 on Mk 15,14-16,20 - 'Preaching the Gospel to all creation'.  The Orthodox Fellowship of the Transfiguration hosts (on its website) a presentation given by Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia in 1996 on the theme, 'Through Creation to the Creator'; (see also the Fellowship's video, 'The Face of God'); and we should also mention here John Chryssavgis' essay, 'The Green Patriarch: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew as a Pioneer of Ecological Change'