With grateful thanks for his ministry and prayers of blessing for the future, we are pleased to announce that His Majesty the King has approved the nomination of The Revd Dr Jitesh Patel, Assistant (currently Acting) Director and Lecturer in Theology at St Mellitus College East Midlands and Associate Vicar in the Benefice of Holy Trinity Leicester with St John the Divine, for appointment to the Suffragan See of Jarrow in the Diocese of Durham.
Jitesh has served the Diocese of Leicester in a variety of roles since his arrival here in 2018, spending 16 years in parish ministry and seven years in theological education and leadership since his ordination in 2010 in the Diocese of Oxford, and he goes with our blessing as he is called by God to this new role.
Jitesh’s final Sunday in the Benefice will be Sunday 22 November 2026, and he will be consecrated at York Minster at 11am on Tuesday 8th December 2026.