A New Curate: Welcome Fr Tristan

Today (Saturday, July 2nd) The Bishop of Blackburn Ordained Tristan Meares as Deacon at a service at Blackburn Cathedral.

Tomorrow Fr Tristan will preach in the morning at Holy Trinity, Tarleton at 8am and 10.45am. In the evening he will Deacon Bishop Philip North’s Ordination of Priests at Accrington.

On Sunday, July 10th he will preach at St Mary’s Rufford at 8am and at the 9.15am All Age Eucharist.

Fr Tristan studied at St Stephen’s House , Oxford. He was born and grew up in West Sussex in a village outside Horsham. Following a scholarship to Lancing College, he read History of Art at University College, London, and later took a degree in English Literature with the Open University. After his time at university, he was drawn more deeply into Church life, singing in the choir, serving as an Organist, and as a PCC Member and Secretary in his sending parish, among other roles. Read more about him here

By Mark Soady|2022-07-01T17:57:18+00:00July 2nd, 2022|Rector, Uncategorized|

About the Author: Mark Soady

Fr Mark was appointed as Rector of Rufford and Tarleton in April 2020, just as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold throughout the world. Previously, Mark was Area Dean and Vicar of Abergavenny & Rector of Llanwenarth Citra. Additionally, Mark was a Psychiatric Nurse and Founder/Prior of the Hollywell Community. Prior to Ordination, he was Head of Office to Rt Hon Lord Jenkins of Hillhead OM; and later worked for the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (an arm of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office) on democratisation programmes. Fr Mark served in the Royal Army Chaplain’s Department from 1998- 2012 and until 2017 was Chairman of Trustees of the Welsh Warrior: Richard Hunt Foundation, which cares for veterans. As Secretary to the Committee of Anglican Religious Communities in England, he also works with all nuns, monks and friars throughout the Church of England

A New Curate: Welcome Fr Tristan