Service for the New Parliament at St Margaret's Church
Tuesday, 9th June 2015
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby, Primate of All England and Metropolitan, gave the Address at Service for a New Parliament at St Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey on Tuesday 9th June 2015.
The service, which was attended by 250 MPs and peers, was conducted by the Venerable Andrew Tremlett, Rector of St Margaret's and Sub-Dean of Westminster Abbey , and the Reverend Prebendary Rose Hudson-Wilkin, Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons.
The Right Honourable The Baroness D'Souza, the Lord Speaker, read Jeremiah 29: 10-14; and the Right Honourable John Bercow MP, Speaker of the House of Commons, read St John 13: 1-14.