Easterncurrents provides ongoing information about the Eastern Archdeaconry and the Anglican Church of Christ Church, Vienna in the Diocese in Europe as well as other matters relating to Central and Eastern Europe together with Turkey. It will also contain personal reflections and observations.
On Monday 11 October interviews were held for the post of assistant chaplain of the Greater Athens Chaplaincy at the Diocesan Office of the Diocese in Europe in London. The assistant chaplain is to serve St Thomas', Kefalas, Crete. This is a new part-time stipendiary post. The following were part of the interviewing panel from left to right (see photograph above) : Canon Mike Peters, Canon Malcolm Bradshaw (Area Dean), Jan Lovall and Revd Tony Lane (representatives for St Thomas) and the Archdeacon.
The portrait in the background is of the first Bishop of the Diocese in Europe the Rt Revd John Satterthwaite. The Diocese is an amalgamation of the Diocese of Gibraltar and the rest of Europe that up until then was under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of London and was the particular responsibility of the Bishop of Fulham. The Diocese was founded in 1980.
