Church appointments

Canon Malcolm Lesiter, Vicar of Radlett, to be Archdeacon of Bedford, diocese St Albans.

Canon Stephen Venner, Vicar, Holy Trinity, Weymouth, and a Canon and Prebendary of Salisbury Cathedral, to be Suffragan Bishop of Middleton, diocese Manchester.

Canon Colin Bennetts, Canon Residentiary of Chester Cathedral, diocese of Chester, to be Suffragan Bishop of Buckingham, diocese Oxford.

Canon Geoffrey Rowell, Chaplain of Keble College, Oxford, and a Canon and Prebendary of Chichester Cathedral, to be Suffragan Bishop of Basingstoke, diocese Winchester.

The Rev Lindsay Urwin, Diocesan Missioner in the diocese of Chichester, to be Suffragan Bishop of Horsham, diocese Chichester.

The Rev David Conner, Vicar, St Mary the Great, Cambridge, to be Suffragan Bishop of Lynn, diocese Norwich.

The Ven Neil Robinson, Archdeacon of Suffolk, diocese St Edmundsbury and Ipswich: to retire, 30 April 1994.