Choral Evensong service of thanksgiving and farewell for Bishop Richard, who retires after 14 years as Bishop of Bedford.
St Albans Cathedral is hosting a Choral Evensong on Saturday 21 November, a service of thanksgiving and prayer to bid farewell to Bishop Richard before he retires. He's been Bishop of Bedford for fourteen years, so this is a send-off for a long stretch of work in the region.
If you're not familiar with the format, Choral Evensong is one of the cathedral's regular services, and they describe it as a traditional service of peace and uplifting music. It's a choral service, so the singing is the main thing, and this particular one is built around thanksgiving and prayer for Bishop Richard as he steps down.
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The venue itself is St Albans Cathedral on Sumpter Yard, AL1 1BY. It's the oldest site of continuous Christian worship in Britain and a shrine to Alban, the country's first saint, so it's a place with a lot of history behind it. The service runs from 5:00pm to 6:00pm on the 21st, an hour's worth of choral music and prayer to mark the occasion.
