Dean’s final services at Southwell Minster

THE Very Reverend Nicola Sullivan, Dean of Southwell is retiring this autumn and her final services in the Minster will be on Sunday 29th September, on the Feast of St Michael and All Angels. 

The Cathedral Eucharist at 10am on that day will be a very special occasion, as the last service at which Dean Nicola presides at the Eucharist in the Minster. The main focus for marking the occasion, however, will be the Festal Evensong at 3.30pm, at which the Dean will preach her farewell sermon. All are very warmly invited to join with the Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham, the Rt Revd Paul Williams, and with other invited guests from around the Diocese and County, as we mark the end of Dean Nicola’s ministry in Southwell. Music will be led by the combined forces of the Cathedral Choir and the Minster Chorale, and there will be refreshments following the service. 

“Dean Nicola has led with such grace and ability through some incredibly testing times, including the Covid-19 pandemic,” commented Canon Richard Frith. “We all owe her an immense debt of gratitude and will have an opportunity on 29th September to demonstrate this.”