The principal aim of our Ten-Year Mission Plan goal is to enable each of us to grow in holiness, develop our personal relationship with Jesus, and inspire others to do the same.

• 7th January – September 2023 Phase 1 of Ten-Year Mission Plan Implementation: Pastoral area establishment & local discernment

• October 2023 – TBC Phase 2 of Ten-Year Mission Plan Implementation: Canonical process followed to form single parishes & rationalisation of estate

• 2028 Formal review of first 5 years of Ten Year Mission Plan implementation

I now invite you all to receive this document with an open heart and consider how we can all bring this Ten-Year Mission Plan to life and work for a bright and fruitful future for our Diocese and mission of brining people closer to Jesus Christ through His Church.

In Corde Iesu,

+ Philip

You will be My witness document can be viewed at You-Will-be-My-Witnesses_V3_Website.pdf or https://www.portsmouthdiocese.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/You-Will-be-My-Witnesses_V3_Website.pdf