Our new vision: Making Jesus Known
Making Jesus Known is the new vision for the Diocese of Salisbury. It emerged after months of listening to people across the diocese, both inside and outside church.
Annual Review 2023
Read our Annual Review 2023, out now! Watch our recap of our year of Making Jesus Known in 2023.
Pray your Part, this General Election
With the General Election on July 4, Christians are being encouraged to 'pray your part'. Chaplains in our diocese have produced reflections on issues and areas they know well to aid your reflections. The booklet offers questions and pointers for prayer for issues that affect our area.
Daily Prayer Podcast
Cycle of Prayer: 24-30 June
Reading this week's prayers is Lydia Reese. "Hello, I’m Lydia! Originally from the mountains of East Tennessee, I find myself in Dorset by way of the Hilfield Friary community, where I realised God was calling me to ordained ministry. I also met my husband, Jimmy, at Hilfield, and we now live in Dorchester where he is vicar of St. Mary the Virgin. As a lover of the natural world I am very much looking forward to serving my curacy in the beautiful benefice of West Purbeck and joining in with what God is doing there."...
Latest News
Praying for New Deacons and Priests
With ordinations happening this weekend, we encourage the Diocese as a whole to pray together for those being ordained, as they start their new ministry...
Engaging the Next Generation
Rob Sallis, Youth Pastor at SML Poole, shares some of the amazing things going on with young people in Dorset as well as opportunities in July for church leaders and young people to get involved....
Humanitarian crisis in Sudan
Rev Canon Ian Woodward shares an update from the terrible continuing crisis in Sudan, to which the Diocese of Salisbury is linked...
'Let us recommit ourselves to the path of peace as we commemorate D Day'
"On this day we hold before our heavenly Father those whose memory we cherish and those whose names we will never know. We ask for our Father’s strength to help lift our eyes above the torment of this broken world and that he may give us the grace to pray for those who wish us harm", writes the Archdeacon the Army, Stephen Dunwoody, who is based in Wiltshire and is a Canon of Salisbury Cathedral...