Evie Garcia

This year is the 500th anniversary of the publication of William Tyndale’s translation of the New Testament into English. He then began working on the Old Testament, but was killed before he could complete it. Wycliffe and his followers had…

We are delighted to have received a grant of £16,450 from Cathedral Music Trust to support travel bursaries for the choristers and to help fund development of our choir chaperones team. Dean John said, ‘We at Ripon Cathedral are blessed…

The Feast of St Michael and All Angels (September 29) has been celebrated by the English church since Anglo-Saxon times, but the common name for it — Michaelmas (St Michael’s Mass) — is not found in written records until the…

Ripon Cathedral is calling on anyone who has ever sung in one of the cathedral’s choirs to join its current choir for a special Alumni Reunion Evensong this October, marking the 30th anniversary of Ripon Cathedral’s Girls’ Choir. Thirty years…

Last month, prompted by the Feast of St Benedict on 11 July, I wrote about the origins of monasticism and how Benedict’s Rule of Life gradually came to be the monastic Rule in early medieval western Christendom.

Ripon Cathedral warmly welcomes visiting choirs to support our liturgies while the cathedral choir enjoys their well-deserved summer break.

The entry in the Common Worship calendar for 11 July reads ‘Benedict of Nursia, Abbot of Monte Cassino, Father of Western monasticism, c. 550’. Given the importance of monasticism in Christian history, the key part it played in spearheading the…

The obstacles to affordable rural housing and how we might overcome them are key topics at today’s conference here at Ripon Cathedral. Hosted by Dean John speakers include York and North Yorkshire Mayor, David Skaith, of York and North Yorkshire…