Every year, the Archdeacons hold Visitation services across the diocese in order to formally admit all elected churchwardens as office holders of the diocesan bishop.
At the Visitation services the archdeacons welcome, encourage and prepare the churchwardens for the coming year. The services are important events in the life of the diocese as they allow churchwardens the opportunity to dedicate themselves to the service of Christ in the company of others who are taking on the same responsibility.
This year the Archdeacons will hold the Visitations at ten locations. It is vital that churchwardens attend one of the below services so that they can be admitted to office – otherwise they will not officially be churchwardens. The services are open to churchwardens from any deanery. If churchwardens cannot make any of these dates, they must inform the Archdeacons’ Office by emailing the Archdeacons’ PA: miranda.lever@liverpool.anglican.org before 31st August 2025.
We would warmly encourage clergy and sidespeople to come along to support their churchwardens.
Dates of 2025 Visitations
| Monday 9th June, 7.30pm | Sefton North: Aintree St Giles, L10 8LE |
| Wednesday 11th June, 7.30pm | Ormskirk: Skelmersdale St Paul, WN8 8ND |
| Wednesday 11th June, 7.30pm | North Meols: Birkdale St Peter, PR8 4BY |
| Thursday 12th June, 7pm | Widnes: Farnworth St Luke, WA8 9HU |
| Sunday 15th June, 6.30pm | Huyton St Gabriel, L36 6AT |
| Monday 16th June, 7.30pm | Liverpool North and Walton: Kensington All Saints, L6 3AD |
| Wednesday 18th June, 7pm | Warrington: Great Sankey St Mary, WA5 1RE |
| Sunday 22nd June, 6.30pm | Sefton South: Great Crosby St Faith, L22 4QQ |
| Sunday 22nd June, 6.30pm | Liverpool South: Allerton All Hallows, L18 6JJ |
| Wednesday 25th June, 7pm | Wigan: Ashton in Makerfield St Thomas, WN4 9DZ |
Copies of the full set of Visitation papers will be emailed out to clergy, churchwardens, secretaries and treasurers by the end of March. We are often contacted by people to say that they have not received the paperwork, only to find the email has gone into their junk folder. Please do check your junk folder in the first instance.
The Archdeacons will be available after the services and will be very happy to speak with any churchwardens (especially those who are taking on the responsibility for the first time). If churchwardens have issues they wish to discuss more fully, the Archdeacons will always be happy to meet with them separately. Appointments can be arranged by emailing miranda.lever@liverpool.anglican.org (PA to Archdeacon Pete Spiers and Archdeacon Miranda Threlfall-Holmes) or gabrielle.redmond@liverpool.anglican.org (PA to Archdeacon Simon Fisher).
Archdeacons’ Visitation News
Coming soon.