Cathedral to host powerful new passion play
Riding Lights Theatre Company presents Night Falls, a new passion play by Paul Birch to be performed at St Mary’s Cathedral in Middlesbrough.Set over the four days leading up to the crucifixion, Night Falls retells the Easter story through two strangers sheltering in...
Bishop Terry’s January 2026 column
On the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, 2024, we began the celebration of the opening of the Ordinary Jubilee Year 2025. A year on, the Holy Door at the Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls was closed on December 28 and the Holy Year concluded in...
A message from Emeritus Bishop Terence Patrick Drainey
Today, the Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, has accepted my resignation as Bishop of Middlesbrough and has appointed Bishop Marcus Stock, the Bishop of Leeds, as Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Middlesbrough.I am very grateful to His Holiness for having entrusted...
