116
Church Buildings
100
Clergy in
parish
99
Parishes
19
LLM & Readers
16
Church of England Schools
1.4m
Population
The Barking Episcopal Area consists of five deaneries covering the five East London Boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Newham, Redbridge and Waltham Forest.
The population of the Barking Area is larger than most Church of England dioceses and is served by The Bishop of Barking, The Right Reverend Lynne Cullens and two Archdeacons – The Archdeacon of Barking, The Venerable Chris Burke and the Archdeacon of West Ham, the Venerable Mike Power.
Our Bishops and Archdeacons work with an Area Team made up of Area Deans, Advisors and Voluntary Officers, details of whom can be found below.
Major locations in the Barking Area include the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London City Airport, ExCeL, Royal Docks, the University of East London and Barking Riverside.
Barking Lodge
Verulam Avenue
Walthamstow
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30 June 2025
The Repair Café at St Mary’s Church, Woodford is a vibrant community event that’s breathing new life into broken household items.
26 June 2025
St Margaret’s Church in Barking recently started a new after-school church service for Children and Families – Pizza & Praise.
14 June 2025
Archdeacon Mike Power recently returned from a trip to Brazil, Argentina and Trinidad supporting the extraordinary work that Port Chaplains do in that part of the world.
10 June 2025
St Margaret with St Columba, Leytonstone is bringing the local community together through bingo.
29 May 2025
Alan Tichmarsh's Gardening Club visited St Mary's Walthamstow to learn about their Burials in Bloom project.
6 May 2025
The Bishop of Chelmsford, the Rt Rev’d Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani, has announced that the next Area Dean of Waltham Forest will be the Rev’d Tim Scott.
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