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Churches Celebrate Easter Sunday with Sea Baptisms Across Torbay
Christians from across Torbay gathered along its beaches on Easter Sunday for a series of sea baptisms. Church leaders from around 12 churches of different denominations took to the water to baptise people who decided to make this public commitment to Christian faith. There were around 25 people baptised at Torre Abbey Sands and about 20 people baptised at Paignton beach. The Bishop of Plymouth, the Rt. Rev’d James Grier, said “On Easter Sunday, we…
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Exeter Cathedral Chrism Service a Joyful Moment as Ministers Gather for Maundy Thursday
Clergy from across Devon have marked Maundy Thursday by gathering at Exeter Cathedral to renew their ordination vows and collect holy oils to use for baptism, anointing the sick and other forms of blessing in their parishes. The annual Chrism Eucharist is led by the Bishop of Exeter with music provided by the cathedral choir. This year it was also the last Maundy Thursday service for the Dean of Exeter Cathedral, the Very Rev’d Jonathan…
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Signs of Life After Death All Around Us Says Bishop of Exeter in Easter Message
The Bishop of Exeter, the Rt. Rev’d Dr Mike Harrison, shares this Easter message for 2026: I love seeing the first signs of spring and what could be more hopeful than the young lambs which are a familiar sight in fields across Devon at this time of year. However hard the winter has been, and I realise that it has been a tough one this year, when the sun finally comes out and the lambs…
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New Good Friday Choral Passion Inspired by Dartmoor and Bach
A new musical setting of the Easter Passion story written by a young composer from Devon will be sung in public for the first time on Good Friday at St Petroc’s church in Harford, near Ivybridge. The Baroque-style work for choir, soloists and organ has been written by Nicholas Courtman, the church organist. It also features sections of narrative, which will be performed on Friday by a local actor. He said the inspiration to write…
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Devon Schools explore the Easter Story through the Big Sing Easter Experience
The Diocese of Exeter’s Education Team recently hosted a special Easter event at Holy Trinity Church in Exmouth, welcoming pupils from local schools in the Exmouth area for a day of reflection and celebration. The Big Sing Easter Experience combined a series of interactive stations telling the Easter story, followed by a service with Easter songs and hymns. Almost 200 children in upper key stage two attended the event. The Easter Experience featured six interactive…
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Magnolia Trees Planted to Commemorate Archbishop Sarah’s Devon Connections
Three magnolia trees have been planted in Devon to commemorate the Installation of the new Archbishop of Canterbury. The Most Reverend Dame Sarah Mullally is the first female Archbishop of Canterbury and was Bishop of Crediton in the Diocese of Exeter from 2015 to 2018. The trees were planted in the grounds of the Bishop’s Palace in Exeter, the churchyard of Holy Cross Church, Crediton and Exeter Hospiscare’s Searle House hospice, ahead of Archbishop Sarah’s…
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