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The Anglican Church of All Saints

Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife North

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Our diocese spans 42 countries

Cathedral interior
The interior of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Gibraltar.

The Diocese in Europe is geographically by far the largest diocese of the Church of England, with its churches and congregations spread across 42 countries on three continents, and covering one sixth of the earth’s land surface.

With almost 300 congregations across Europe, as well as in Turkey, Morocco and Russia, the churches under its orbit have equally varied locations, ranging from capital cities through small towns and into holiday areas such as here in Tenerife.

The congregations include young people, retired people, diplomats, business men and women and, in many instances, refugees.

The Diocese looks after churches as far apart as Mongolia in the east and Portugal in the west and from Iceland in the north down to Morocco in the south.

Diocesan head office is in Gibraltar, home to the cathedral of the diocese. There are two “pro-cathedrals”, St Paul’s Valletta, in Malta and Holy Trinity, Brussels, in Belgium.

English churches have been established in continental Europe since before the Reformation and grew in number to such an extent that in 1633 congregations of the Church of England in all foreign countries were placed under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of London, London then being the chief port of England.

The exterior of Gibraltar Cathedral.

Anglican dioceses and then provinces were later formed in all parts of the world outside the United Kingdom.

The Diocese of Gibraltar was founded in 1842 and took over the pastoral care of chaplaincies and congregations in Hamburg, Constantinople, Athens, Florence, Naples, Turin, Madrid, Alicante, Barcelona, Cadiz, Cartagena, Malaga, Ancona, Genoa, Leghorn (Livorno), Messina, Naples, Nice, Palermo, Rome, Venice, Marseilles, Fiume, Trieste, Patras, Prevesa, the Dardanelles, Salonica, Smyrna, Tripoli, Tangier, Tunis, Sardinia (Cagliari), Corsica, Minorca (Mahon), Crete, Cyprus, Syria and Malta.

In 1883 the Bishop of London appointed a suffragan bishop, who later was given the title of Bishop of Fulham, to supervise the chaplaincies in north and central Europe.

From 1970 the Jurisdiction of North and Central Europe, together with the Diocese of Gibraltar, was in the episcopal care of one bishop, the Bishop of Fulham and Gibraltar.

Then in July 1980 a single diocese was formed with the title The Diocese in Europe, and it became the 44th Diocese of the Church of England.

The Bishop of the Diocese is assisted by a Suffragan Bishop and Assistant Bishops.

The Episcopal Church of the United States of America (ECUSA) has also established six churches in Europe. They are under the jurisdiction of the Presiding Bishop of ECUSA. Since 1971 they have been placed in the care of the Bishop-in-Charge of the American Convocation in Europe.

The Spanish Episcopal Reformed Church and the Lusitanian Church (Portugal) are also full member churches of the Anglican Communion, and the Church of England has full communion with a number of others churches, as a result of historical agrrements and the more recent Porvoo Agreement.

To find out more about the work of the Diocese in Europe, go to Diocese in Europe.

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August 2022 Newsletter

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Services & Events Schedule

SUNDAY:
11:00am – Sung Eucharist

WEDNESDAY:
10:00am – Holy Communion
11:15am – Bible Study & Prayer Group


For the latest information about Car Boot Sales (updated 14th June 2022), please click here.

For the list of dates of future quizzes through to June 2023, please click here

Contact Us – Who’s who

Chaplain:  Vacancy
tel: +34 605 48 67 92
email: allsaintsnorthtenerife@gmail.com
Assistant Priest:
The Revd Rachel Ganney
tel: +34 672 83 47 11 (WhatsApp)
email: rachel@ganney.net
Reader:
Peter Lockyer
tel: +34 922 37 03 28
email: allsaints@lynx3.eu
Congregational worship leader:
Judith Rigby
tel: +34 711042849
email: rigbyjudith59@gmail.com
Church Wardens:
Wendy Sanderson
tel: +34 922 32 09 78
Dawn Rutherford
email: dawnr30@hotmail.co.uk
Safeguarding officer:
Judith Rigby
tel: +34 711 04 28 49
email: safeguardingpuertotenerife@gmail.com
Hon Treasurer:
Cheryl Douglas
email: cheryl6921@hotmail.com
Chaplaincy Council Secretary:
Kath Delgado Cabrera
tel: +34 615 22 23 11
email: kath.delgadocabrera@gmail.com
Organist:
Rayco Gonzales
tel: +34 699 64 94 54
email: raycobrito@hotmail.com

LINKS TO KINDRED SITES

St Francis’ Anglican Church,
Tenerife South

La Palma Anglican Church

The English Library, Tenerife

The Friends of Tenerife

Ecumenical links

In der Anglikanischen Kirche in Puerto de la Cruz hält die Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Teneriffa Nord sonntags regelmäßig um 17 Uhr deutschsprachige Gottesdienste für ihre Mitglieder, Urlaubsgäste und interessierte Besucher.  Im Gemeindehaus hinter der Kirche befinden sich Gemeindebüro und Gemeinderäume. Hier und im dortigen Gartengelände wird bei vielerlei Gemeindeveranstaltungen ein geselliges Beisammensein gepflegt – Tel. 922 374 964.

OUR GERMAN Lutheran Brothers and Sisters also use the church for their Sunday Services and social events.  They have an office at the Parsonage and can be contacted by telephone on 922 374 964  Their office hours are displayed by the main door to the Parsonage.

We also have Ecumenical Links with the Scandinavian and Finnish churches in Puerto de la Cruz.

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