Our vision

2025 will mark 950 years since our Cathedral was moved from Selsey to Chichester.

It’s an anniversary that’s significant not only for the Cathedral, but for the life of the whole Diocese and for the Christian faith in Sussex. The year also marks 1700 years since the Ecumenical Council of Nicaea – a definitive turning point in the Church’s witness to the God who has revealed himself to us in Jesus Christ and continues to lead us into all truth through the Holy Spirit. This anniversary has invited us to think more deeply about our purpose here at the Cathedral.

Read our full Vision document, including our detailed objectives, below.

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The Cathedral seeks to renew its life in the 2020’s in many ways, but it has these objectives particularly in sight as we consider our future life through the four Dominican Pillars listed below. We'll be sharing more information about each of these areas very soon.

Prayer

Committing ourselves to seeking the face of God afresh in contemplation and worship, we hope to be guided by The Spirit to enter more deeply into the mystery of Jesus Christ and to radiate His beauty.

Study

Rooted in prayer, we seek to discern what it means to be human in an age of technological, political, social and economic change – through study, teaching and engagement with the World.

Community

Shaped by the insights of prayer, contemplation and study, we seek to build up our community in love, compassion and hospitality – encouraging each other to step out in faith and hope.

Mission

As a discerning, prayerful and loving community, we seek to take the message of God’s grace into the World with imagination, beauty and confidence, radiant with the promise of salvation.