The Office of Churchwarden is an annual office and it is a legal requirement for all churchwardens to be admitted every year by the Diocesan Registrar or Archdeacon.
If you have any questions about this service, please contact your Archdeacon's office.
A message from the Archdeacons’ Office
Dear All Churchwardens and Diocesan Clergy
This year there will be no individual services of admission of Churchwardens, but rather you are warmly invited to Ely Cathedral for a single admission service on Sunday 1st June 2025 when Bishop Dagmar will admit all Churchwardens to office.
Refreshments will be available in the Lady Chapel from 3pm with the formal service of Admission of Churchwardens taking place at 4pm.
We realise that many of you may not be having your APCM for a while yet, but we wanted to give you advance notice of the date for this special service.
*A formal letter of invitation will be circulated in the early Spring.
Register your place
- You will need to Register online to attend this service.
- The registration process helps the Archdeacons’ office to prepare the ‘signing-in’ registration sheets as well as giving us an idea on expected numbers for refreshments before the service.
- Register you place here - click here
Important Notice
- The Office of Churchwarden is an annual office, and it is a legal requirement for ALL churchwardens to be admitted every year by the Diocesan Registrar or Archdeacon. If you are standing down as Churchwarden, please forward this information to your successor.
Essential forms
- Download your 2025 Declaration Form - Click here
- Your declaration form will need to be completed and returned to us via email archdeacons.events@elydiocese.org
- Additional forms, if needed, will be available at the service.
- Remember to register you place here (click here)