Big weekend of ordinations to be held at city Cathedral

This Sunday will see six new candidates being ordained at Sheffield Cathedral.

The Church of England candidates will be presented at these services and, following the ordinations, will be known as deacons. They will serve in parishes around the Diocese of Sheffield for 12 months before being presented for ordination to the priesthood.

Reid Humble will be serving in Rotherham Minster; Robert Heaton in the parish of St Mary the Virgin, Sprotbrough; Elisabeth Keith in the Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Paul, Sheffield; Alistair Stevenson in the parish of All Saints, Ecclesall; Thomas Carpenter in the parishes of St John the Evangelist and St Mary Magdalene, Goldthorpe, and St Wilfrid, Hickleton; David D’Silva in the parishes of St John the Baptist, Edlington, and St Jude, Hexthorpe.