Pilgrimage

Travelling together is an important part of St Barnabas parish life and of our dialogue with other faiths and traditions.

As well as our regular pilgrimages to the Holy Land led by Fr Brian Ralph, we make other trips throughout the year — you can see some of them below. For dates of upcoming parish visits and outings, please see our events pages.

Visit to Christ Church, Nazareth | St Barnabas Bethnal Green

Christ Church, Nazareth (May 2023)

Where we’ve been in recent years

2024

Peterborough Cathedral (June)

Southwark Cathedral - with Tower Hamlets Deanery (June)

Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Family in Exile (March)

2023

Chichester Cathedral (November)

All Hallows by the Tower (July)

St Paul’s Cathedral (February)

2022

All Saints Church, St Margaret Street (July)

Southwark Cathedral (February)

Pre-2020

Winchester Cathedral (November 2019)

St Alban’s Cathedral and Abbey Church (2019)

Coptic Orthodox Church Centre, Stevenage (January 2019)

Lichfield Cathedral, to see the Bethlehem Icon Centre’s commission for the cathedral and to meet its Principal, Ian Knowles (September 2018)

St Stephen’s House & Keble College Chapel, Oxford (July 2017)

Canterbury Cathedral, to meet our patrons the Dean & Chapter (September 2014)

Hindu Pragati Sangha, Mile End Temple (March 2012) — part of the Belief in Bow programme

BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Neasden Temple (May 2010)

Fr Brian Ralph & Canon Geoffrey White Dominus Flevit | Holy Land 2012 | St Barnabas Bethnal Green

Holy Land

Fr Brian has led regular trips to the Holy Land for many years, including members of the St Barnabas congregation, students from Raines Foundation School (where Fr Brian was chaplain), and members of the Tower Hamlets clergy.
Fr Brian travelled initially with Fr Derek White MBE, with whom he previously worked as the Bishop of London’s chaplain to the homeless.