Welcome to the Derby City Deanery!

We are part of the Derby City and South Derbyshire Archdeaconry.

Archdeacon: The Ven. Matthew Trick - matthew.trick@derby.anglican.org 

Area Dean: Revd Sarah Watson - sarah.watson@derby.anglican.org 

Assistant Area Dean:  Revd Mina Munns - mina@stalkmunds.org.uk

Assistant Area Dean: Revd Susie Curtis - susie.curtis@derby.anglican.org 

Deanery Lay Chair: Madelaine Goddard

Secretary: Kelly Martin - kelly.martin@derby.anglican.org | 01332 388677

Treasurer: Hugh Craig

Derby City Deanery is made up of all the parishes in the city of Derby including Derby Cathedral, BMOs and chaplaincies. With over 250,000 inhabitants, it has about a quarter of the population of the diocese. The population is culturally diverse with many faiths represented. The Deanery has many characteristics in common with other inner cities such as having more than half the areas of deprivation within the diocese.

Derby City Benefices

1. Derby; The Cathedral Church of All Saints (The Parish of Derby Cathedral Church of All Saints)
2. Allestree St. Edmund and Darley Abbey (Parishes of Allestree; Darley Abbey)
3. Allestree St. Nicholas (Parish of St. Nicholas Allestree)
4. Alvaston (Parish of Alvaston)
5. Boulton (Parish of Boulton)
6. Breadsall (Parish of Breadsall)
7. Chaddesden St. Mary (Parish of Chaddesden)
8. Chaddesden St. Philip with Derby St. Mark (Parishes of Chaddesden, St. Philip; Derby, St. Mark)
9. Chellaston (Parish of Chellaston)
10. Derby St. Alkmund and St. Werburgh (Parish of St. Alkmund and St. Werburgh Derby) (This excludes St. Werburgh’s Bishop’s Mission Order)
11. Anne Derby (Parish of St Anne, Derby)
12. Derby St. Barnabas (Parish of St. Barnabas, Derby)
13. Derby St. Bartholomew and St. Luke (Parish of Derby St. Bartholomew and St. Luke)
14. John the Evangelist, Derby (Parish of St. John the Evangelist, Derby)
15. Derby St. Paul (Parish of St. Paul, Derby)
16. Derby St. Peter and Christ Church with Holy Trinity (Parish of St. Peter and Christ Church with Holy Trinity, Derby)
17. Findern (Parish of Findern) (held in plurality with 29)
18. Littleover and Blagreaves (Parish of Littleover and Blagreaves) (including the Haven Chrisian Centre LEP)
19. Mackworth St. Francis (Parish of Mackworth St. Francis) (currently being managed by the St Werburgh Bishops Mission Order Group)
20. Mickleover and Radbourne (Parishes of All Saints, Mickleover; St. John the Evangelist Mickleover; Radbourne)
21. Normanton (Parish of Normanton-by-Derby)
22. Oakwood (Parish of Oakwood)
23. Pride Park, Wilmorton, Allenton & Shelton Lock (Parishes of Allenton and Shelton Lock; St. Andrew with St. Osmund, Derby)
24. Quarndon (Parish of Quarndon)
25. Sinfin (Parish of Sinfin)
26. Sinfin Moor (Parish of Sinfin Moor)
27. Spondon (Parish of Spondon)
28. Walbrook Epiphany (Parish of Walbrook Epiphany) (including St. Augustine Derby and St. Thomas Derby)
29. Willington (Parish of Willington) (held in plurality with 17)

Bishop’s Mission Order

Derby: St. Werburgh’s Bishop’s Mission Order

>> Spotlights on parishes in Derby City Deanery

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.

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 CofE structure and culture. 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.