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The Bishop of Manchester, the Rt Revd. Nigel McCulloch visited the parish of St Margaret, Hollinwood with St Chad, Limeside on Thursday 13th December 2007
After prayers in St Margaret's church, the Vicar, the Revd. David Hawthorn took the bishop to meet staff at Hollinwood Cemetery & Crematorium.
The bishop also switched on the Hollinwood Christmas tree lights and blessed the tree, on Manchester road, site of the old Roxy cinema.
The bishop visited a number of parishioners in their homes, taking holy communion to Mrs Gertrude Wood and Mrs Alice Ogden.
The bishop also met Shanine Meadowcroft a local community development worker with Funded partly by diocese parish mission fund PMF and Contour Housing.
At a reception hosted by the PCC for the local community in the Canon George Hall, the bishop spoke with local councillors and community members
A Service of Celebration & Commissioning in the Parish Church
included a presentation about the life and history of the parish. The service included participation by a number of church members of all ages and the Commonwealth Games baton, which the bishop is bringing with him on his three year pilgrimage was returned to the bishop by Rebecca Tyre, a server at St Margaret's, together with Joan Lees, who coodinates a group imaginatively called the 'silver ladies'. At the end of the service the church`s architect who is currently supervising the restoration of the church tower, also took the baton.
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