The Diocese of Leicester will mark its Centenary in 2026–27 with a rich programme of worship, storytelling, civic events and church community participation, giving thanks for 100 years of God’s faithfulness and looking ahead with hope.
The Archbishop of Canterbury will visit dioceses and parishes across the Church of England this year to shine a light on where God is at work in local churches and communities.
This Summer term, our listening exercise is exploring the theme of friendship – and we want to hear from as many young voices in the diocese as possible!
The Rollett family will soon be swapping life in the Diocese of Leicester for East Africa, where they will walk alongside local Christians and help them work together to be a loving witness to their neighbours of other faiths.
Primary-aged children from schools across the diocese came together to celebrate creative eco action and caring for God’s planet in the Leicester Diocesan Board of Education’s first ever Eco Schools Extravaganza.
As part of an ongoing provision of support, the Archdeacons of Leicester and Loughborough warmly invite PCCs and Trustees to come together for a training morning. The mornings are designed to help whole PCCs and clergy in understanding, managing, and fulfilling their responsibilities as trustees.
The Revd Martyn Snow, Lord Bishop of Leicester, and the Rt Revd Saju Muthalaly, Bishop of Loughborough, share their message for Easter 2026.
A small team from the Diocese of Leicester recently travelled to our Link Diocese of Trichy‑Tanjore in the Church of South India (CSI) to strengthen long-standing partnerships, share ministry expertise, and deepen intercultural connections. The visit - our first since the Covid pandemic - was Intercultural and Intergenerational Ministry in action, a reconnecting of communities, with the group returning to Leicester feeling spiritually inspired and energised.
The Bill to remove the two-child limit in Universal Credit was debated in the House of Lords today (12 March 2026). The Rt Revd Martyn Snow, Lord Bishop of Leicester, addressed the House with a speech highlighting how the limit deepens both material poverty and the sense of shame experienced by families, reinforcing harmful assumptions about their responsibility and worth. He called for cross‑party collaboration on how to end the policy and address the wider structural and emotional impacts of poverty on people’s lives.
As a source of study and reflection during Lent, the ‘Sisters’ of the Church of the Martyrs in Leicester are concentrating on stories of the ‘unseen’ women of the Bible, shedding light on the lives and characters of women often overlooked in Scripture, but deeply significant in God’s redemptive plan.
