What challenges lie ahead for Lincolnshire's new Bishop, Stephen Conway? Discover his vision for the diocese and how he plans to engage with the local community. LincsCathedral
After being announced as the next Bishop of Lincoln this week, Stephen Conway said he wants to get “Lincolnshire into my bloodstream as soon as I can”.
Bishop Conway was "absolutely thrilled" to have been chosen for the position. Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite “Don't tell people in Ely but Lincoln has a pretty fine cathedral. It's a splendid place to worship and to belong. In 1983, he began training for ministry at Westcott House, Cambridge and was ordained as a priest at Durham Cathedral in 1987.
There will be a series of formal proceedings and the College Canons in Lincoln will proceed to elect him, which will be confirmed at a ceremony in London presided over by the Archbishop of Canterbury this summer. He added: “We need to be a diocese that's more self-sufficient. There needs to be a fresh approach to financial giving across the diocese, to fund our ministry, and we need to live out what we've agreed in the diocesan strategy, about our commitment to Christian mission and proclamation across the county.
He said: “I think one of the things that COVID revealed was people’s readiness to care for one another.
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