The Council for the Care of Churches (CCC) and the Diocese of Chichester recently announced that His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester KG GCVO plans to attend part of the CCC’s Annual Conference in September.
The conference will be co-hosted by the Diocese of Chichester and held at Sussex University, Falmer, near Brighton, Monday 18th to Wednesday 20th September 2006.
The Duke will attend the conference service of Sung Eucharist in the Chapel at Lancing College followed by a Civic Reception at a museum in Brighton and a dinner in the banqueting suite of The Royal Pavilion, to be held on the evening of Tuesday 19th September.
The reception and dinner will be hosted by the Chairman of the Council for the Care of Churches, the Right Reverend Graeme Knowles, Bishop of Sodor and Man.
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