The Right Reverend Sophie Jelley, the tenth Bishop of Coventry, was welcomed by three young people from schools in the diocese as the service began on Saturday afternoon.

Image source, Diocese of Coventry. Image caption, The Right Reverend Sophie Jelley was welcomed and installed at Coventry Cathedral on Sunday. Susie Rack. BBC News, West Midlands. Published.

A leading figure in the Coventry diocese has promised it will not be split by plans in America to appoint a homosexual bishop.

A Coventry priest is facing a DUI charge after allegedly striking a pedestrian in Warwick. Police said Jacek Ploch, 38, of Coventry, was released to a sober adult. He's due in court Aug. 1.

THE new Bishop of Coventry was officially welcomed to the diocese in a special service on Saturday.

The money would help churches and local communities to manage their churchyards as "treasured green spaces and wildlife havens", the Diocese of Coventry said. The £195,176 comes from The National ...

A DAUGHTER’s petition to have the buried remains of her mother’s partner exhumed from her mother’s grave and buried elsewhere, so that she herself could in due course be buried in her mother’s grave, ...

The Bishop of Coventry is to retire at the end of 2007, after nine years. The Right Reverend Colin Bennetts, 67, said he was looking forward to a busy year before stepping down in December. He intends ...

Coventry Cathedral which is built next to the bombed ruins of the old site has scrapped its entrance fees due to "generous donations". Charges including £6 adult entrance fees were introduced in ...

PROPOSALS by the diocese of Coventry to sell one of the country’s oldest allotment sites for housing would “split the community in two”, the allotment-holders have said. The diocese is considering ...

Diocese of Coventry. The Right Reverend Sophie Jelley was welcomed and installed at Coventry Cathedral on Sunday. Coventry's first female Bishop has been officially installed during a service at ...

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