Dorset Deanery Pastoral Meetings
The sixteen parishes within Dorset together form the Dorset Deanery, the most easterly deanery in the Plymouth diocese. In 1999, in response to a request from Bishop Christopher, lay representatives from most of the parishes in the deanery met in Dorchester and formed the first Dorset Deanery Pastoral Forum.
Our Deanery Pastoral Forum has evolved from that time and we now encourage Priests, Deacons and religious as well as lay representatives from our parishes to attend the meetings.
The forum is for listening to one another and sharing ideas. It is a Forum for the mutual cooperation, support, and facilitation of best pastoral practise, an opportunity for interaction between priests and people.
The five Deanery Pastoral Forums within the Plymouth Diocese send representatives to the Diocesan Pastoral Council (which meets three times a year). The Diocesan Pastoral Council is a consultative body, and it benefits from having good functioning Deanery Pastoral Forums so there can be an effective two way flow of information.
There follows, for your information, recent minutes from the Dorset Deanery Pastoral Forum. If you would like to represent your parish, ideally for a period of three years on the Forum, please speak to your Parish Priest. It is a very worthwhile and interesting opportunity to help develop Catholic life in the Deanery and the Diocese.
Minutes of Dorset Deanery Pastoral Forum
DDPF minutes September 2010
DDPF minutes June 2010
DDPF minutes April 2010
DDPF minutes January 2010
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