The Diocesan Chancery is located at Archbishop's House, 150 St George's Road, Southwark and is open from 9.30-5.30 Monday to Friday.

The Chancery is responsible for the drawing up and issuing of all documents and official acts in the name of the Archbishop and on his behalf. Within the Chancery is kept the Archbishop's official seal.

The day to day work of the Chancery covers a wide area. This would normally include:

• Preparation and dispatching of marriage documents to Dioceses all over the world. This often involves contact with other dioceses by telephone, email and fax.
• Preparation of decrees granting permissions for marriages which involve a permission or a dispensation
• Issuing of permissions to receive adults into Full Communion with the Catholic Church
• Granting of diocesan faculties for priests and deacons who minister in the diocese.
• All administrative acts which require the mandate of the Archbishop.

The Chancery is also responsible for the co-ordinating of Commissioning Days for Extra Ordinary Ministers of the Eucharist in the diocese (held 3 times a year) and for notification to all priests in the diocese upon the death of a priest.

Contact

• The Chancellor: The Reverend Monsignor Richard Moth
• The Vice-Chancellor: The Reverend Monsignor William Saunders
• Chancery Administrator: The Reverend Deacon Michael Kennedy
• Secretary: Mrs Mary Doolan

Tel: 020 7928 5592
Fax: 020 7401 7383
Email: chancery@rcsouthwark.co.uk