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Welcome to Lewisham Deanery

Lewisham is one of the twenty Deaneries (geographical areas) which make up the Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark. The Lewisham Deanery serves the following ten parishes: Beckenham Hill, Brockley, Catford, Deptford, Downham, Forest Hill, Lee, Lewisham, Sydenham and Sydenham Kirkdale.

This website provides information for and about the parishes, the clergy, the Deanery Pastoral Council, of which the Chair is Mike Sheridan of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, Lee, and the Deanery Clergy Council, of which Fr Sam OFIA of The Annunciation and St Augustine Parish, Beckenham Hill is the Dean of Lewisham.

The website is designed to give you quick access to the Catholic Parishes and schools in Lewisham as well as news about upcoming events and activities. The Parish page gives times of Masses, contact numbers for clergy and details about sacramental preparation including Baptism and Marriage. Where parishes have their own website there is a link. Some parishes have their weekly newsletter on their website which provides more current information.

The schools' page provides with contact details of the Catholic schools in the Deanery to enable you to enquire as to the admissions policy and how to enrol your children.

There is a useful link page giving you access to the Archdiocese website where more information is available about Catholic life in South East London.

The website will be regularly updated and will respond to the needs of the Catholic population within the Lewisham Deanery.

The Retirement of Bishop Patrick Lynch SS.CC

Following Bishop Patrick Lynch’s submission of his resignation to our Holy Father, Pope Francis, we have received news from Rome that this has now been accepted, allowing Bishop Pat to retire. The deanery has been enjoying a close relationship and friendship with Bishop Pat . He is a person of wisdom, great knowledge of many cultures and a friend of the marginalised. We always remember his meaningful stories during homilies. During the periods of lockdown, he has been contacting every priest under him every week. Whenever I have been in need of some pastoral guidance, he was always there to support me. We offer Bishop Pat our sincere thanks.

ALL PARISHES' ACTIVITIES ARE SUSPENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE &

BECKENHAM HILL

THE ANNUNCIATION
AND
ST AUGUSTINE

BROCKLEY

ST MARY

MAGDALEN

CATFORD

HOLY

CROSS

DEPTFORD

OUR LADY
OF
THE ASSUMPTION

DOWNHAM

GOOD

SHEPHERD

FOREST HILL

ST WILLIAM
OF
YORK

LEE

OUR LADY
OF
LOURDES

LEWISHAM

ST SAVIOUR AND
ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

SYDENHAM

OUR LADY
AND
ST PHILIP NERI

SYDENHAM KIRKDALE

CHURCH OF
THE RESURRECTION
OF THE LORD

MOST OF THE CHURCHES WILL REMAIN ONLY OPEN FOR INDIVIDUAL / PRIVATE PRAYERS

Our Mission Statement

Lewisham Deanery Pastoral Council

"May they all be one, Father, may they be one in us." (Jn 17:21)

We are lay members of the Lewisham Deanery authorised by our parish priests to represent our parishes in a pastoral council.

In the light of the Gospel we aim to prayerfully discern and undertake the following tasks:

1. To support the adult ministries in our parishes; catechists, youth leaders, readers, extraordinary ministers of Communion, leaders of liturgies for children and members of parish committees by:

a) networking

b) resourcing

c) formation

d) sharing of best practice and

e) ongoing training (supplementing any parish initiatives)

2. To take part in an ongoing conversation with the Deanery Clergy.

The DPC will converse with the Clergy Conference.

Individual members will converse with their parish clergy and organisations.

3. To represent parish communities in a deanery context.

4. To facilitate the sharing of resources where appropriate e.g. catechists.

5. To network with other groups within the community, e.g. Marriage and Family life team, Ecumenical organisations, relevant borough organisations, Diocesan organisations and Schools.

6. To operate and maintain a Deanery Website.

7. To enable people to experience the wider church community of which their parish is part.

To that end:

1) We will meet regularly in order to effectively liaise with the Clergy Conference.

2) We will elect a Chairperson, a Vice-Chairperson, a Secretary and a Treasurer annually at our AGM. Terms of office will not usually exceed 3 consecutive years.

3) We accept appointments from our parishes (3 members per parish) for a fixed term and we undertake to renew our commitment annually at the Deanery Mass.

4) The ten parishes within the Deanery will provide funds in order to implement the planned catechetical programme of formation and training for the coming year. The funding will cover the working costs of the DPC events, including the use of external speakers and consultants. The treasurer will regularly advise the DPC about planned expenditure so that funding can be increased as and when the need arises.

Lewisham Deanery

Dean

Father Sam OFIA

Webmaster

Franck Anguibi

deanerylewisham@gmail.com