The Church of England today - in pictures

I’m a wife, a mother and a priest’: the Rev Catherine Grylls, the parish priest of St Mary & St Ambrose, Edgbaston, Birmingham Photograph: Karen Robinson

The Choir at St Mary's prays before the service Photograph: Karen Robinson

A member of the congregation follows the service. Photograph: Karen Robinson

Collection plate Photograph: Karen Robinson

Damien Plimmer, a member of the Choir at St Mary & St Ambrose Photograph: Karen Robinson

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John and George, members of the choir at St Mary’s Church, Tenbury Wells Photograph: Karen Robinson

A child plays during the service at St Mary’s Church Photograph: Karen Robinson

John helps George with his cassock Photograph: Karen Robinson

St Mary & St Ambrose's Church Warden Lalith Vadlamudi, his wife Ruchica and child Pranati Photograph: Karen Robinson

Pat Richards, a reader at St Mary & St Ambrose Photograph: Karen Robinson

Rev Catherine Grylls giving communion Photograph: Karen Robinson

Rev Catherine Grylls Photograph: Karen Robinson

Rev Catherine Grylls blesses a child during communion Photograph: Karen Robinson

Natasha Harris and her son Cairo Odaro, who was christened at St Mary & St Ambrose Photograph: Karen Robinson

Rev Claire Lording Photograph: Karen Robinson/Karen Robinson

Rev Catherine Grylls talks with her congregation Photograph: Karen Robinson

‘We celebrate our diversity’: the Rev Claire Lording in Tenbury Wells Photograph: Karen Robinson

Robert the Organist at St Mary's Photograph: Karen Robinson

Rev Claire Lording talks with parishioners Photograph: Karen Robinson

Rev'd Catherine Grylls leads the Sunday Morning Service at St Mary & St Ambrose Photograph: Karen Robinson

The altar and stained glass window at St Mary & St Ambrose church, Edgbaston, Birmingham Photograph: Karen Robinson

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Rev Claire Lording of St Mary’s Church, Tenbury Wells Photograph: Karen Robinson