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Benefice Details for Heavitree and Saint Mary Steps

Archdeaconry: Exeter
Deanery: Christianity

Clergy in the benefice

The Rev Jolyon Seward
Vicar, Heavitree TM with special responsibility for St Lawrence

St Lawrence Vicarage, 36 Lower Hill Barton Road, Exeter, EX1 3EH
Tel: 01392 677152
Email The Rev Jolyon Seward

The Rev Andrew Johnson
Assistant Curate

Elm Brook House, 348 Topsham Road, Exeter, EX2 6HF
Tel: 01392 425201
Email The Rev Andrew Johnson

The Rev Alexander Hobbs
Assistant Curate

10 Sherwood Close, Heavitree, Exeter, EX2 5DX
Tel: 01392 677153
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Parishes in the benefice

Heavitree with St Paul Exeter

Saint Mary Steps

Living in Love and Faith is ‘the Task of Our Generation’

“I really believe in what we are doing with Living in Love and Faith. “This is our moment, this is the task of our generation in the Church, to be thinking about gender, identity, sexuality and marriage, and from the resources of our faith and spiritual life, to share in these important conversations.” The Bishop of Crediton, the Right Reverend Jackie Searle, is the Diocese of Exeter Advocate for the Living in Love and Faith…

New Bay Church Gets £1.5m Funding to Reach Young People and Families

The Church of England in Devon has been successful in its £1.5m funding bid for a new mission initiative aimed at young people and families in Torbay. The new Bay Church will be based at St Andrew’s Church in Paignton. Rev’d Matt Bray, currently a curate at Harbour Church in Portsmouth, has been appointed as the church’s leader. He said, “It feels very exciting and a very welcome answer to prayer! “I feel so grateful…

Helping “Justice Roll Down” in Devon and Cornwall

The chair of the Devon and Cornwall Police Community Scrutiny Panel says it exists to be a critical friend to the force and hold it to account when needed. The Reverend Nathan Kiyaga juggles the voluntary role with being Chaplain of St Cuthbert Mayne, a joint Roman Catholic and Church of England Secondary school in Torquay, and Rural Dean of Torbay. Devon and Cornwall is one of only a few police forces in the UK…

Headstone Blessing for Unmarked Grave of Brothers Killed in WW2 Exeter Air Raid

A headstone blessing ceremony has taken place at the graveside of four brothers who died in a World War Two air raid in Exeter in 1940. It follows a fundraising campaign to erect a headstone on the plot at Higher Cemetery, in Heavitree, after the children lay buried in two unmarked graves for more than 80 years. George Squire, 17, John Squire, 12, James Squire, 8, and Sidney Squire, 3, were all killed when a…

Bishop Determined to Root Out Racism in the Church

The Church has not practised what it preaches when it comes to racism and other forms of discrimination, the Bishop of Exeter has said. The Right Reverend Robert Atwell was responding to the From Lament to Action report published by the Church of England’s Anti-Racism Taskforce. It proposes 47 specific actions to bring about a “change of culture” in church life and warns the Archbishops that a failure to act could be a “last straw” for many…