After some five years of part-time study, our Prime Warden, Revd Dr Hugh Thomas, was awarded his doctoral degree by Anglia Ruskin University at a ceremony in Cambridge on the afternoon of Monday 9 November. His research project was entitled "The mission and ministry of self-supporting priests in the Church of England".  

He, like over 3000 other self-supporting priests in the Church of England, receives no remuneration for his clerical work and supports himself by other means. The project examined the theological background to such ministry, the published data on such priests over a 22-year period and a review of the experiences of many priests in two separate dioceses. If anybody would like to learn more, do ask him.