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Last updated 14th August 2020

Clergy Moves and News

**APPOINTMENTS IN THE DIOCESE (June 2020 onwards)**
Name	Post(s)	Licensing date
Rev Fiona Haines	Chaplain: HM Prison Service	12th June
Rev Lindsay Pearson	Licensed virutally as Priest-in-Charge: Blackpool St Mary Squires Gate and Chaplain: St George's School Blackpool	25th June
Rev Joanne Macholc	Assistant Priest (SSM): Blackburn St Stephen & St James	30th June
Rev Gary O'Neill	Interim Canon Precentor and Residentiary Canon: Blackburn Cathedral	4th July
Rev Dr Thomas Woolford	Interim Vicar (18 months): New Longton All Saints	2nd September
Rev Aiden Edwards	Interim Vicar (3 years): Burnley St Andrew with St Margaret and Burnley St James	4th September
Rev Canon Mark Soady	Rector: Rufford and Tarleton [Mark was licensed virtually as Priest-in-Charge on 1st April]	21st September
Rev Lindsay Pearson	Vicar: Blackpool St Mary Squires Gate [Lindsay was licensed virtually as Priest-in-Charge on 25th June]	7th October

**MOVES OUT OF THE DIOCESE (June 2020 onwards)**
Name	Current post(s)	Move to	Effective date
Rev Ian Enticott	Vicar: Accrington St James and St Paul	Diocese of Chester: Rector of Congleton	21st July 2020

**RETIREMENTS (June 2020 onwards)**
Name	Current Post(s)	Effective date
Revd Ann Rene Wood	Priest-in-Charge (HfD): Lytham St John the Divine	30th June
Revd John Bannister	Vicar (half time): Lund St John the Evangelist	31st August
Revd Canon Dr Simon Cox	Rector: Bispham All Hallows	31st August
Revd Stephen Adesanya	Vicar: The Plurality of Burnley St Cuthbert and Brierfield St Luke	27th September
Revd Martin Duerden	Vicar: Salesbury St Peter	30th September
Revd Graham Ashworth	Associate Priest: Leyland St Ambrose	30th September
Revd Duncan Clarke	Vicar: Leyland St Ambrose	30th November

**RESIGNATIONS (June 2020 onwards)**
Name	Current Post(s)	Effective Date
Revd Canon Andrew Horsfall	Residentiary Canon: Blackburn Cathedral	30th June
Revd Canon Dr Susan Williams	Associate Priest (HfD): East Lonsdale	13th July
Revd Richard Marshall	Vicar: Benefice of the Redeemer Blackburn	15th August

**BISHOP'S PERMISSION TO OFFICIATE (June 2020 onwards)**
Name	Deanery	Effective date
Revd Ann Wood	Kirkham	July 2020
Revd Stephen Large	Burnley	July 2020
Revd Judith Smith	Tunstall	July 2020
Revd Canon Dr Susan Williams	Tunstall	July 2020

**DEATHS (June 2020 onwards)**
Name	Current Post(s)	Date
The Very Revd John Kenneth Robinson	Retired with PTO	5th August

Clergy Discipline Measure - Penalty Announcement(s)

Full name	Penalty	Date Imposed	Brief Summary
Revd John McGrath	Prohibition from Ministry for 5 years	4 November 2019	Close and inappropriate relationship with a person not his spouse. Spiritual abuse of a vulnerable person in the instigation of said relationship.

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