Michele Gee

In 672 a visionary bishop named Wilfrid built a glorious church here - the crypt of which still remains. This autumn join us as we celebrate Wilfrid with great food and entertainment at Twilight in the Nave, fascinating lectures, worship and wonderful choral music. Details on our website.

This week we reflect on the joys and challenges of family life, welcoming new chorister families to the cathedral and exploring Jesus’s challenging words in Sunday’s gospel.

Ripon Cathedral Choir’s UK summer tour saw our acclaimed choir singing at Westminster Abbey over a four-day period.
Some 60 boy and girl choristers and choral scholars together with ten lay clerks (adult singers), sang four evensongs and Sunday’s Sung Eucharist while the abbey’s own choir takes its summer break.
The choir was conducted by the cathedral’s Director of Music Dr Ronny Krippner.

The Great Yorkshire Show played host to a North Yorkshire Council policy discussion for the first time this year, chaired by The Dean of Ripon, the Very Rev John Dobson, DL. The panel included Tom Gordon, the MP for Harrogate…

Ripon Cathedral’s hugely popular Christmas Gift and Food Fair takes place across two days on Friday, November 22 and Saturday, November 23.

A new ministry within the Diocese of Leeds was recognised at Ripon Cathedral on Sunday with the commissioning of a group of people as Diocesan Eco-mission Enablers by Bishop Anna.

The choir sang at venues including Munich Cathedral, Regensburg Cathedral, Waldsassen Basilica and Nuremberg Frauenkirche.

We are so very grateful for a grant of £30,000 from the Cathedral Music Trust! This will fund choristers' vocal coaching amongst other things!

Dean John visits affordable new homes in the Dales built by Broadacres Housing Association and offered to those with a link to the village.