Diocesan Conference 2008
The Diocese continued the tradition of holding a full three-and-a-half-day residential conference on the bank holiday weekend of 23 to 26 May 2008. Approximately 150 clergy and laity of the Diocese (including children of all ages) assembled at the Royal Alexandra and Albert School at Gatton Park, near Reigate. The theme of the conference was “Pray without Ceasing”. The principal speaker was to have been Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia, a great friend of the Diocese, and a renowned expert on the theology and practice of prayer. However, Metropolitan Kallistos was prevented from attending by a last-minute fax from the Phanar in Constantinople (Istanbul) forbidding him both to attend and to speak at the aforementioned conference. Other speakers were Bishop Hilarion of Vienna and Austria, Father Stephen Platt and Deacon Matthew Steenberg, both from Oxford, and Matushka Alexandra Zaitseva.
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