Derby City Deanery
Acting Area Dean: Revd Dr Simon Cartwright
Deanery Administrator: Ms Jo Simister
Derby City Deanery is made up of all the parishes in the city of Derby. It also includes chaplaincies and one Bishop’s Mission Order church. At over 250,000 inhabitants, it has about a quarter of the population of the Diocese. This population is culturally diverse and many faiths are represented. The Deanery has many characteristics in common with other inner cities – for example, it includes more than half the areas of deprivation within the Diocese.
The formation of the new Deanery as a legal entity was completed in January 2018. We launched at a Festival of Life at Boulton St Mary’s in September 2016 and we are meeting as a combined Synod representing all 35 parishes (including the Cathedral), chaplaincies and BMOs.
>> Spotlights on parishes in Derby City Deanery
The parishes of:
Allenton and Shelton Lock: St Edmund
Alvaston: St Michael and All Angels
Blagreaves: St Andrew
Breadsall: All Saints
Derby: St. Andrew with St. Osmund
Derby: St. Anne
Derby: St. Bartholomew and St. Luke
Derby: St. John the Evangelist
Derby: St. Mark
Derby: St. Paul
Derby: St. Peter and Christ Church with Holy Trinity
Derby: The Cathedral Church of All Saints
Findern: All Saints
Littleover: St Peter
Littleover: TheHaven Christian Centre
Mackworth: St Francis
Mickleover: All Saints
Mickleover: St. John the Evangelist
Normanton-by-Derby: St Giles
Oakwood
Quarndon: St Paul
Sinfin Moor: Local Ecumenical Partnership
Sinfin: St Stephen
Spondon: St Werburgh
Walbrook Epiphany Team Ministry (incl St Augustine and St Thomas)
Willington: St Michael
And the Bishop’s Mission Order churches:
Derby: St Werburgh, Friar Gate
Derwent Oak
Keeping in touch via the Deanery Newsletter
We produce a newsletter approximately every two months (Jan, Mar, May, Jul, Sep, Nov) and it is emailed to parishes to be printed out and/or displayed on noticeboards, etc.
If you need a number of ready-printed newsletters, perhaps for people at home, local residential homes, etc, please contact the Deanery Administrator jo.simister@derby.anglican.org.
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2019
2018
2017
Newsletter 009 : December 2017
2016
Newsletter 001: September 2016
Newsletter 003: November 2016 news and events supplement
Derby City Deanery Synod
The Deanery Synod is a gathering place for clergy and lay representatives in the deanery, where we can pray and take counsel together, supporting one another in mission, and co-ordinating our service and sharing of the Gospel.
Derby City Deanery Synod comprises approximately 50 Deanery Clergy and 125 Lay Representatives from all parishes (allocated according to the number of people on each parish church’s Electoral Roll). Most business is conducted in a combined meeting, but occasionally there are separate meetings for the House of Clergy and the House of Laity. Lay Representatives are elected within their parish to serve for three years.
Lay Chair: Mrs Madelaine Goddard
Secretary: Mr Peter Vincent
Treasurer: Mrs Kathryn Hicks
Future Deanery Synod Dates:
18 March 2020
2 July 2020
23 September 2020
The Deanery Synod provides a vital structural bridge between parochial church councils (PCCs) and Diocesan Synods, bringing together clergy and lay people from neighbouring parishes to discuss issues relating to mission and ministry in the local area. Sometimes it will make a formal decision, sometimes by means of a vote and a local concern raised in your Deanery Synod could find its way onto an agenda for debate by your Diocesan Synod and even by the General Synod.
The Deanery Synod is an important part of the structure and culture of the Church of England. Members are elected by parishes, and the Deanery Synod in turn elects representatives to the Diocesan Synod. Deanery synod meetings are concerned with seeking God’s will for the mission of the Church locally, so it needs to be Christ-centred, prayerful and open to the Spirit speaking through all.
It can take strategic decisions to advance local mission and ministry, but it also serves the witness and mission of the wider Church.
Potentially the work that Deanery Synods do at local level can help shape the Church at national level for years to come.
Derby City Deanery Leadership Team
This team consists of the:
Area Dean and Assistant Area Dean(s)
Lay Chair, Secretary and Treasurer of Synod
Elected Lay and Clergy Representatives of Synod
Deanery Administrator and co-opted members.
The Deanery Synod is required to have a standing committee. The first Derby City Deanery Synod (held in September 2016) approved the proposal that our Deanery Leadership Team be the standing committee.
One of its functions is to prepare the agenda for Deanery Synod and conduct any business between meetings that is required.
It also has two other functions. First, as the Mission and Pastoral Committee of the Deanery, supporting parishes in vacancy and taking an overview of the needs for mission and ministry in the Deanery. It is also in a good position to deal with the legal issues as the new Deanery comes into being.
Second, it has the role of co-ordinating the mission of the church in the Deanery, supporting and developing the missional role of the Deanery. In this capacity, the Deanery Leadership Team will take a leading role in writing any Deanery Mission Action Plan.
