ONE of the first member of the Pakistani community is to be ordained as a Church of England curate on Saturday.

Christopher Peter will serve at St Paul's Church, Hoddlesden, and St Peter, Darwen.

He will be one of eight people from Lancashire who will be ordained by the Bishop of Blackburn, the Rt Rev Alan Chesters at a ceremony in the cathedral.

Also among the new curates is Rosemary Priestley, who will be following in her father's footsteps when she is ordained.

Rosemary, of St Paul's Church, Scotforth, Lancaster, and her father John, a senior Lancashire clergyman, will be the only known father-daughter team serving in the same Diocese.

Clive Lord, of St Leonard's Church, Penwortham, James Morley, of All Hallows, Bispham, Lars Simpson, of St Michael and All Angels, Staining, Andrew Wilkinson, of St Lawrence and St Paul, Longridge, Paul Witts, of St Aidan's, Bamber Bridge, and Malcolm Worsley, of St Christopher, Blackpool, will also be ordained.

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