Welcome to St Paul's Cathedral We welcome all those who come through our doors - as worshippers and pilgrims, or as visitors and sightseers from London, the United Kingdom and the whole world. The Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral 25 May 2012: Thousands of significant objects and a large quantity of archive material from St Paul's Cathedral are now accessible to the public for the first time. More » 24 May 2012: Tomorrow (25 May), St Paul�s Cathedral will welcome the Very Revd Dr David Ison, as its new Dean. More » 24 May 2012: Last night (23 May), a debate with Harvard professor Michael Sandel was held on the cathedral floor, entitled What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets. More » 23 ... Continue reading →

A video message from the Archbishop of Canterbury for young people about to visit the Taizé Community in France. The Archbishop talks about his first pilgrimage there as a teenager - how easy it was to make friends, the silence during the community prayer, and the adventure of putting up a tent. Over 40 years later, young people visiting Taizé today find their attention drawn to the same things. Continue reading →

Conversations with journalists often involves challenging the suggestion that the Church of England spends all its time in conflict over sex and women. If 5% of what we talk about forms 95% of media coverage about us and this shapes 100% of popular perception about the church’s preoccupation, no wonder we have a problem. Well, despite my protestations that the bulk of our preoccupations have nothing to do with sex or conflict, the House of Bishops spent 95% of its meeting this week doing sex and women (bishops). One colleague at the two-day meeting in York, having wondered after months of bad weather what the big yellow thing in the sky was, asked why we couldn’t leave the stuffy room and meet outside – or ... Continue reading →