CALLING A BISHOP The Diocese of Edinburgh is prayerfully looking for a Bishop to lead and support us as we discern God’s call to us in this place and at this time of change and challenge. More information may be found at buff.ly/lu4aeAp Closing date: 31 October 2025 at 12 noon 📷 Peter Backhouse

I am pleased to have joined the six other bishops of @scottishepiscopal.bsky.social, and 31 other UK faith leaders, in signing this open letter to the UK Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It urges them to act to lift more British children out of poverty. www.scotland.anglican.org.

🎉 There's so much for children and young people going on in our Diocese. Catch up with the latest update from our Youth & Children team. Read and subscribe via the link in our bio.

🎵 Congratulations to the musicians from our churches who won prizes in the Edinburgh Festival of the Sacred Arts' Young Composers' Competition! Giles Longstaff from St John's, Princes Street, took first prize, while Christian Wong, from St Peter's, Lutton Place, took third. 📸 I Gibson

✅ A new church walking tour! ✅ Ideas for Creationtide! ✅ Interesting courses and resources! It's all in our latest Adventures in Faith Newsletter! Read and subscribe via the link in our bio!

🎵 Don't forget to tune in to BBC Radio 3 today at 3pm! You'll hear the Choir of @stmaryscathedin.bsky.social, singing Choral Evensong live. Catch up on BBC Sounds, or hear the re-run on Sunday at 3pm. Link in bio.

❓ Why not step inside an Edinburgh church this Festival? Some take part in the Edinburgh Festival of the Sacred Arts and the Just Festival... ...while some have their own Festival programmes and host events – including @stmaryscathedin.bsky.social Link in bio to find a church near you. 📸H Harcus

Congratulations to the Revd Fiona (Fee) Reynolds, whom I ordained as a priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church on Saturday. Fee is curate at St Ninian’s, Comely Bank, and the @dioceseofedinburgh.bsky.social's Advisor for Christian Life. Let us wish Fee all the very best. Do hold her in your prayers.

We will soon move to new premises in Edinburgh. The main Scottish Episcopal Church office will vacate Forbes House while the building's future is addressed due to maintenance and operational issues. As we are Forbes House tenants, we must seek new premises too. Link in bio for full announcement.

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Pleased to pick up a copy at Old St Paul's this morning.

🎉 It's out today! The Edinburgh City Centre Historic Churches Walking Trail is available now via our bio link. Leaflets are at featured churches. It's an inter-church venture including our friends from the Church of Scotland and Catholic Archdiocese of St Andrews & Edinburgh! 📸 P Backhouse

✅ Pilgrimage ideas ✅ Children's activities ✅ Interesting courses ✅ Events near you It's all in our latest Adventures in Faith Newsletter! Read and subscribe via the link in bio!

The Rev Oliver Brewer-Lennon, Rector of St Michael and All Saints, Edinburgh took to the airwaves this Sunday morning as a guest panellist on BBC Radio Scotland's Sunday Morning programme with Tony Kearney.

🌳 It's all go at St Andrew's, Kelso! They recently joined Kelso Churches Together at a town-centre outreach stand, while twenty-four people attended a Bible Study this month. Part of the garden at St Andrew's is also being extended, while the church has just run a plant sale! 📸 Rev Canon Bob King

✨ Launching 24th July is the Edinburgh City Centre Churches Trail! It features the Church of Scotland, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St Andrews & Edinburgh, and Episcopal Church! All welcome to the inaugural Trail Walk, leaving St Giles' Cathedral at 10.30am on 24/7. 📷 Enric/Wikimedia Commons

✨ A week today, the Edinburgh City Centre Historic Churches Walking Trail is being launched! Here are some of the Church of Scotland, Episcopal and Roman Catholic churches featured! All welcome to join the inaugural Trail walk, leaving St Giles' Cathedral at 10.30am on Thu 24th July. 📷Anne Martin

🌍 Over £10,000 was raised across our diocese for Abraham's Children in Crisis in the Bishop of Edinburgh's 2025 Lent Appeal. Thank you to everyone who donated. Nine new children have since been supported. Read a letter from the charity via the link in our bio. 📸 B Werner/Wikimedia Commons

❗ Make sure Thursday 24th July is in your diary! We'll be launching an exciting inter-denominational project involving some Edinburgh congregations in the Church of Scotland, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St Andrews & Edinburgh, and @scottishepiscopal.bsky.social! All will soon be revealed...

❓ Which is your local church? Perhaps it's St Columba's, Bathgate, in West Lothian. It's a place of prayer, beauty, calm, love and community. See what's on at stcolumbasbathgate.org.uk

😌 Many churches offer space for prayer, reflection and community during the week. 🙏 That includes St Peter's Church, #Linlithgow – anyone can come to their Said Eucharist on Tuesdays at 10.30am, which lasts 30 mins. 🐶 They always have coffee and cake afterwards. And dogs are welcome too!

🖍 Children and young people are at the heart of our diocese. 🙏 See what they've been up to recently in the latest Youth & Children Newsletter from our Mission & Ministry team! Link in bio...

😌 Looking for space to reflect? Taizé services – characterised by simple, repeated songs, silence, prayers and contemplative readings – can be perfect. Visit St Mungo's, West Linton, and St James-the-Less, Penicuik, for their next Taizé service. stmungoswestlinton.org / stjamesthelesspenicuik.org

🎵 There's music all across our diocese! It can teach us – something explored by the Revd Oliver Brewer-Lennon in a recent podcast (link in bio). And it can bring us to prayer – whether in church, via live-stream or on Spotify! 📸 Full post/credits on our Instagram

Congratulations to the young people whom I had the pleasure of confirming recently at St Matthew's, Rosslyn Chapel, Midlothian. Please hold them in your prayers as they grow in faith.

🙏 There are many ways to pray, and anyone can do it, anywhere. Why not discover a new method with our new 'Ways to Pray: A to Z' page? Many of them are explored in a dynamic new resource from St James-the-Less, Penicuik, and St Mungo's, West Linton. Visit the link in our bio.

Congratulations to The Revd Simon Schofield, whom I had the pleasure of ordaining as a priest in the @scottishepiscopal.bsky.social Church yesterday at St James Church, Goldenacre, Edinburgh. I wish Simon every success for this next stage of his ministry.

Incense. Ritual. Music. It's what you can expect from churches marking Corpus Christi this Thu 19 June. Experience the richness of this age-old rite at churches like St Michael & All Saints, Edinburgh (7.30pm), and Old St Paul's, Edinburgh (7.30pm). 📸 Blue Sky Photography (1,3), OSP (4)

✨ Why not visit one of our churches this weekend? It's Trinity Sunday tomorrow, when we celebrate God whom we believe to be Father, Son and Holy Spirit. So it's the perfect time. One such church is St David's, Pilton, North Edinburgh. Visit stdavidepiscopal.org.uk for their service times.

🖍 There's lots on at our churches for toddlers and their parents/carers! 🧸 Why not bring your little one to a mid-week toddler group? Details below and via the link in our bio. 💡 Remember that most groups run term time only, so do check churches' own media.

Lots happened at the General Synod of the @scottishepiscopal.bsky.social Church last week. Click the link for some of the @dioceseofedinburgh.bsky.social's highlights. edinburgh.anglican.org/2025/06/gene... Photos: SEC

👐 Everyone is welcome in our churches – even the very youngest! 🖍 We're highlighting several of their early-years groups this June! 🎨 Ninian's Nippers meet Tue 2pm-3.30pm at St Ninian’s, Comely Bank, Edinburgh. 🌳 Link in bio to hear why tots, childminders and parents love it! 📸 Cathy Tingle

Congratulations to @chchholycorner.bsky.social, who recently celebrated 150 years since the laying of the church's foundation stone. Wonderful to welcome the Most Revd Leo Cushley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of St Andrews & Edinburgh, as preacher, and Cllr Robert Aldridge, Lord Provost of Edinburgh.

🎉Congratulations to @chchholycorner.bsky.social on 150 years since the laying of their foundation stone! 🎵They celebrated with Choral Evensong attended by @BishopEdinburgh.bsky.social, RC Archbishop Leo Cushley as preacher, and Cllr Robert Aldridge (@edinburghcouncil.bsky.social). 📸Christ Church

🔥 At Pentecost, we celebrate the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the first disciples. O God, who enlightened your people by the fire of the Holy Spirit: give us wisdom and understanding, that your Church may be kept in the unity of the Spirit; [...] 📸 Rev Sophia Marriage, St Mark's Portobello

During Thy Kingdom Come, we've created an A to Z of ways to pray: buff.ly/bHLqUjA U is for Up! ⬆️ ✨Go outside on a clear night and look up. It’s hard not to feel wonder at the vastness of the universe, how small you feel in comparison, and then more wonder that God loves you. 📸 Greg Rakozy

Stay up to date with the latest from the @scottishepiscopal.bsky.social General Synod, which continues today and tomorrow. #Synod #Episcopal #ScottishEpiscopalChurch

Congratulations to @chchholycorner.bsky.social on 150 years since the laying of their foundation stone! Thank you to The Most Revd Leo Cushley, Roman Catholic Archbishop & Metropolitan of St Andrews & Edinburgh, for preaching.

G is for Gratitude. 💐 For Thy Kingdom Come 2025 we're looking at ways to pray, from A to Z! Many are from a booklet by two of our churches (tinyurl.com/mub3tpxc 📲). It suggests keeping a journal to 'help you recall specific blessings' and make you more thankful. Why not try it? 📓 📷 Marco Palumbo

For Thy Kingdom Come we've created an A to Z of ways to pray. 📱A is for app! Try Pray As You Go to immerse yourself in scripture, or pray the Bible up to three times a day with Lectio 365. Get 25 more ideas about ways to pray at buff.ly/bHLqUjA. 📸 Daria Nepriakhi on Unsplash

✨Today is Ascension Day! Almighty God: grant that we, who believe that your Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ, ascended to the heavens, may already dwell in spirit with him there; for he lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. 📸Christ Church, Morningside

🙏 #ThyKingdomCome is coming! ✨ Everyone is encouraged during the 11 days from Ascension to Pentecost to pray for five people they know to come to faith in Jesus. 😌 We'll also be sharing lots of content on prayer on web and socials, including 'One Way I Pray' videos! 📣 Stay tuned! Link in bio.

✅ Youth events! ✅ Prayer resources! ✅ Book recommendations! ✅ Interesting workshops! It's all in our latest Adventures in Faith Newsletter! Read and subscribe via the link in our bio!

Great to see our Diocese going green!

It was wonderful to be at St Mark's, Portobello, on Sunday, 18 May, to celebrate the first service of Holy Communion since their £900,000 renovation began six months ago. Find out more: tinyurl.com/yup7zbsn Photos shared courtesy of St Mark's, Portobello

🇫🇮 A postcard from Espoo, Finland! 🌍 Two clergy from St James', Goldenacre, Edinburgh, recently visited the Diocese of Espoo, our twin diocese in the @evl.fi. 🗺 See what Revd Jane MacLaren and Revd Simon Schofield got up to via the bio link! 📸 Rev Jane MacLaren

🌼It's #DementiaActionWeek, so we're highlighting the Forget Me Notes Project. 🎵Its Music, Memories & Cake initiative is at St Cuthbert's, Colinton, every 1st and 3rd Monday of the month, 2-4. 👐They use music to help people tell their stories. It's a dementia-friendly open session. 📸St Cuthbert's

🙏'Whatever God is up to – quiet revival or not – let’s take it for what it is, give thanks to God and allow ourselves to be consoled, to see it as evidence that God does not leave us comfortless...' ⛪Visit our bio link to catch up with @BishopEdinburgh.bsky.social's 'BIG Day' address! 📸P Backhouse

🌼 It's #DementiaActionWeek, so we're highlighting the Memory Café at St John's Church, #Selkirk. ❤️ Held on the first and third Tuesdays of the month, 2pm-3.30pm, it gives people with memory loss and their care-givers a supportive place where they can connect with others. 📸 St John's Memory Café

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