CLERGY in the Ripon and Leeds diocese will welcome seven new curates following an ordination service at Ripon Cathedral this weekend.
Four men and three women from backgrounds as diverse as optometry, lecturing, teaching and business management will take up their posts following a ceremony at 10.30am tomorrow.
Three will become deacons and will be paid a church stipend - including Malaysian Thomas Yap, who will serve his curacy at St Andrew's Starbeck; Jane Ball, a former teacher married to Catterick Garrison chaplain, the Reverend John Ball, who will take up a post at St Gregory's, in Bedale; and Rosemary Cox, who will be posted in Leeds.
Non-stipendiary ministers will be Terry Buckingham, a former university lecturer, who will serve at St Wilfrid's in Harrogate; former headteacher Kenneth Crossle will be curate at St John's, in Sharow, near Ripon; Tom Keighley, an independent management consultant, who will serve in Upper Nidderdale; and Brenda Wood, a former college lecturer, who will serve her curacy in Kirkstall.
At other church services this weekend, eight curates ordained as deacons a year ago will be ordained as priests.
They include the Reverend Margaret Rimmer, a curate at Aysgarth with Bolton-cum-Redmire, the Reverend Peter Askew, curate at St John's Church in Bilton, Harrogate, and the Reverend Tim Hurren, curate at St Peter's in Harrogate.
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