• The Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth is delighted to announce its annual pilgrimage to Lourdes, taking place from Monday 6th July to Friday 10th July, departing from London Heathrow Airport. Bishop [...]

  • The Portsmouth Bamenda Committee supports the link between Portsmouth Diocese and the Archdiocese of Bamenda which was established over 50 years ago. Members of the committee work with counterparts in [...]

  • Angela Camilleri was until recently a parishioner at Christ the King Reading for over forty years. She has recently relocated from Reading to the Mediterranean island of Malta and shares [...]

  • Bishop Philip writes about his visit to The Marist, Ascot Last Thursday, I made a visitation of the Marist school in Ascot, an independent Catholic girls’ school that offers education [...]

  • This Sunday, parishes across the Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth are being invited to support a leading Catholic charity’s mission to eradicate leprosy. St Francis Leprosy Guild (SFLG), the UK’s Catholic [...]

  • St Peter’s Church in Winchester warmly invites people of all faiths and none to experience the building transformed into a place of beauty, hope and wonder. Through illuminations, live music, [...]

  • The Columbans in Britain have launched their next Schools Competition 2025/26, which has the theme: Becoming a refugee is never a choice. But how we respond is.” It is a [...]

  • On Monday 8th December, St Mary's Catholic Primary School in Maidenhead Lower Junior Choir, had the opportunity to perform at Windsor Castle for all the visitors. The children were supported [...]

  • Are you a Catholic currently teaching in a non-Catholic school? Have you considered applying for a post in one of our schools but are unsure how they are different and [...]

  • Bishop Philip Egan welcomes the new appointment of Right Reverend Richard Moth as Archbishop of Westminster. His Holiness Pope Leo XIV has appointed the Right Reverend Richard Moth as Archbishop [...]

  • Read or watch Bishop Philip's newest pastoral letter. The letter can be read in full here or watched here. For more information on the event being organised by the Bishop, [...]

  • The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England & Wales and Birmingham Newman University are conducting research into Neurodiversity and our Faith. If you're an adult neurodivergent Catholic or a Caregiver of [...]

  • Thank you for all the wonderful donations received for Bamenda Sunday. They help fund projects to support our brothers and sisters in Bamenda who are impacted by the continuing civil [...]

  • Being at sea over the Christmas period is a tough reality many seafarers and fishers face, often under challenging conditions. They miss spending this special time of the year with [...]

  • Bishop Philip wrote on e-news:On Sunday 30th November, we celebrated a special Sung Vespers in the cathedral for the First Sunday of Advent. Afterwards we had a gathering of parish [...]

  • The new Ordo has now been published. It can be accessed by searching "Ordo 2025 - 2026" or by clicking in the button below. Ordo 2025 - 2026 [...]

  • This Saturday 18th October is Anti-Slavery Day and we are launching our Modern Slavery Statement. Modern Slavery was described by Pope Francis as a “crime against humanity”. It exists in [...]

  • Each year, the World Day of Migrants and Refugees (4-5 October 2025) invites us to express our Christian concern, care and solidarity with migrants and refugees. It offers us a [...]

  • PORTSMOUTH’s two bishops have issued a statement on immigration and asylum in the wake of protests outside a Southsea hotel. The Rt Rev Jonathan Frost, Church of England Bishop of [...]

  • The Season of Creation runs from 1st September – 4th October. A time renew our relationship with our Creator and all of creation, through celebration, conversion and commitment. This guide [...]

  • This text was taken from Bishop Philip's weekly newsletter. To keep up to speed with what happens in the Diocese, you can subscribe to the e-news through here.Over these last weeks [...]

  • On Saturday, 19th July 2025, we gathered in St John's Cathedral as Fr Ryan Browne was ordained to the priesthood, a significant milestone marking the beginning of his ministry. [...]

  • The below text was taken from Bishop Philip's e-news. You can access it here . "Congratulations to my predecessor, Bishop Crispian! Friday 11th July is his 60th anniversary of [...]

  • “As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace.” (1 Peter 4:10)   The Bishop is inviting applications from people [...]

  • Pope Francis 1936 - 2025 Requiescat in Pace   Pope Francis has died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican’s [...]

  • Bishop Philip Egan, Bishop of Portsmouth, has released a statement following the conviction of Father Piotr (Peter) Glas. Click here to read the statement.

  • The Diocese is keen to gather feedback from you about the current website, so that your views can help ensure that a revised site meets your needs and expectations. If [...]

  • On Friday 29th November, MPs voted in favour of proposals to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales. The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill will now face many [...]

  • The unrest of the last few days across the towns and cities of our land has been unsettling and we rightly pray for an end to violence and destruction. The [...]

  • On Sunday 10th September Bishop Philip Egan published his Pastoral Letter to be read in all churches and chapels of the Diocese of Portsmouth on 10th September 2023, the Twenty-Third Sunday of the [...]