What are the challenges for a rural diocese like Herefordshire?<\/p>\n
The Archbishop of Canterbury has spent the first day of his three-day visit to the diocese in the city centre, but he accepts the rural nature of Herefordshire throws up some challenges.<\/p>\n
He said quite often the problems are hidden behind the beauty of one of the Church of England’s most rural dioceses.<\/p>\n
“I think every diocese is challenging nowadays, I don’t suppose there was ever a time when they really weren’t,” The Most Reverend Justin Welby said.<\/p>\n
“I think particularly now it is very challenging and every diocese has its own particular challenges.<\/p>\n
“Obviously a rural diocese like Herefordshire you’re dealing with much smaller communities, the whole agricultural sector where the Church has always been very engaged for a thousand years.<\/p>\n
“And often the problems in a rural diocese are hidden behind beautiful buildings, rolling hills, you know grazing cattle, yet they are as real.<\/p>\n
“So yet the challenge of the Church to love and care for the communites is as great, but the capacity to do so is a big challenge.”<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a> and enjoy all the pictures.<\/p>\n https:\/\/t.co\/YOM8Nxnx0y<\/a> a great photo of Archbishop Justin at St James Messy Church in this article. @HerefordDiocese<\/a> @MessyChurchBRF<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Kathy Bland (@Kathymessybland) October 14, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n