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This site gives you details of a three year mission by taken by the Bishop of Manchester . During the mission the Bishop will visit every one of the parishes in his Diocese.
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The Bishop of Manchester has now completed all of his mission visits. His final visit was to St Luke, Weaste, in Salford on Sunday December 19th 2010. To find details of all the Run the Race visits over the last four years, click here for an alphabetical list, or use the search button to find your parish. |
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The 2002 Commonwealth Games Baton was designed and built by IDEO www.ideo.com. The Diocese is grateful for the loan of the baton during the pilgrimage. More information here. |
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In a ‘Run the Race’ first, the bishop (in his purple cassock) donned bowling shoes for a quick game of ten-pin bowling at Hollywood Bowl… More here |
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Canon Roger writes: |
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Highlights from 2008 |
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2010 is the final year of the Bishop`s pilgrimage to all the parishes and churches of the diocese. As in previous years it has been full of interest, enabling the Bishop to experience the church`s ministry at the grassroots in a variety of ways.
He did some (friendly) sparring at a boxing club and visited a riding club for the disabled. He met member of an Asian men’s group and has been to a number of madrassas to hear the children learning and reciting the Koran.
Prayers were said at Birch services on the M62 to remember a policeman killed on duty there. Sparkling new church noticeboards have been blessed, a pastoral care team commissioned and a restored organ blessed.
The bishop has pulled pints in pubs and operated the checkout in supermarkets, even saying a prayer for shoppers over the sound system at Asda.
After one pilgrimage service of celebration and recommissioning, the bishop watched as parishioners lit prayer lanterns and released with joy and hope into the night sky. |
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The Bishop of Manchester’s Run the Race to St John Flixton on May 13, 2008 was part of an Open Community Day at the church… |
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Highlights from 2007 |
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Highlights from 2009 |
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At Eastlands the pilgrimage celebration was also the closing service for the church of the Resurrection which is to be demolished - but it also included the blessing of the site for the new church... More here |
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Highlights from 2010 |
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The Bishop used sign language to bless his congregation when members of Deaf Churches in the Diocese of Manchester gathered at the bishop’s home for a Pilgrimage visit and celebration... More here |
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The Run the Race Baton |