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Bishop of Blackburn has fabulous fun cycling through 14 deaneries in a day

Bishop of Blackburn has fabulous fun cycling through 14 deaneries in a day

Thursday, October 23, 2025
THE Bishop of Blackburn, the Rt Revd Philip North, has cycled through all 14 deaneries in his diocese in a single day, pausing in each one to preach, pray, or take a school assembly — an 80-mile feat of endurance which he described on Monday as “f...