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The 16th Bishop of Truro, Philip Mounstephen, will be given a warm welcome to the diocese in a service at Truro Cathedral on Saturday, January 12, 2019.   The service will see the new bishop formally …

We had an incredible response to our 'Message of Peace' Poppy Campaign and received thousands of beautiful paper poppies.  All the poppies were uniquely created by individuals, young and old, schools, …

If you are struggling to find the perfect advent calendar or candle, Christmas gift or decoration, look no further than the cathedral shop!  Located just inside the cathedral, the shop offers a …

Four years ago, the cathedral oversaw a programme of lectures, poetry readings, concerts and services entitled Cornwall Remembers, a series of commemorative events surrounding the hundredth …

I have just been reading a book on ancient Greece and Rome. Not your typical holiday reading, I warrant, but to each their own. Not unsurprisingly there was a chapter on Pompeii, and the volcanic …

Over that past few years, my late Mum and I have been researching her family tree. She had her fathers' side done professionally in the 1980s but only as far as a few generations to the 1800s. I was …

I had the privilege the other day of conducting the funeral of a 93-year old, the father of a dear friend of mine. Syd was a wonderful person in all sorts of ways: I mention his age because he was as …