St Bartholomew's Church, Sealand

09/09/2026

This coming weekend!

04/09/2026

Please join us on Sunday next September 6 at 3.30in St Deiniol’s, Hawarden,when Rev Dr Sarah Rowland Jones will be installed as Priest in Charge of Hawarden , Broughton and Sealand

24/08/2026

Do join us next Sunday August 30 as we share our joint service with all the folk at Saughall!

19/07/2026

22/06/2026

This morning Dean Sarah announced that after more than 8 years in St Davids she will hand over the baton for a successor to shape and deliver the next 5-8year phase of the Cathedral’s development plan, which runs beyond her retirement date. She will leave in August and return to parish ministry in her home Diocese of St Asaph, closer to family, where she will take up the post of Rector of Hawarden and Vicar of Broughton and Sealand, as priest in charge within the Deeside Mission Area.
Dean Sarah said ‘I’m going to grab the rapidly closing window before I'm 70, and return to the priestly work of parish ministry for a couple of years: to pastoring, preaching, discipling, teaching and praying with and encouraging the people of God in being salt and light, day by day, in the world. This will also give more time for speaking, writing, broadcasting etc across popular theology and spirituality, international Anglican matters, and academic work than being Dean allows. All this – both the life of a parish priest, and communicating the things of God in the language of the world, to both church and world – is really my primary vocation.’ She added that she is looking forward to collaborating with Gladstone’s Library, with which she has a longstanding association.
Thanking the wider Cathedral community, she noted that being Dean of St Davids had rightly been described by a predecessor as not only the best job in the Church in Wales, but the best in the Anglican Communion, and said that ‘to be, in effect, guest-master for the hundreds of thousands, millions, who visit this holy place - as well as all who live and work here - and who are touched in some way by the sense of God’s intimate presence, known best in Jesus Christ, is a privilege beyond measure. May all of us, whether residents or visitors, never stop being open to feel his compassionate love and reassuring encouragement, and having ears to hear his call to keep on following him on the pilgrim journey of life, wherever he leads.’

03/06/2026

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24/05/2026

Pentecost! Come and celebrate the Church’s birthday!

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