Bablake Chaplain Returns To Coventry Cathedral

Recently, Kathryn Fleming, Canon Pastor at Coventry Cathedral, welcomed Curate and Bablake Chaplain Reverend Sacha Slavic, saying:

'A Minister in Secular Employment at Bablake School in Coventry, Sacha teaches Religious Education and is the school Chaplain. Ordained in 2012, he trained at The Queen's Foundation in Birmingham and served the first part of his curacy at St Laurence's in Foleshill, Coventry.

Reverend Slavic has a long history with the Cathedral community, starting in 1989 when he came from France. He was married here and his children were baptised here; he also served as a Cathedral Reader until he pursued his calling to ordination. As a Lay Benedictine, attached to Mucknell Abbey, he follows the Rule of St Benedict and its daily pattern of prayer and work ('ora et labora'). His favourite motto is 'Listen with the ears of your heart' (attributed to St Benedict).

Reverend Slavic has a passion for peace and reconciliation, and his ministry at work has been totally inspired for the last 20 years by theCross of Nails ethos, even more so since he was ordained. His last school Westwood Academy became the first secular state school to receive the ICON status, while Bablake has been honoured this year by Archbishop Justin's visit.

He also feels that there is real work of reconciliation, social justice, pastoral care and education in the city that should have the Cathedral and its Cross of Nails as the focal point, the heart of the mission.'

Reverend Slavic, who has already delivered his first sermon atCoventry Cathedral, will be part of the 2014-15 'Meet the New Staff' series (to be compiled by L6th pupils Charlotte Byng and Kirstie Cattell) that will be posted later this year in our Newsroom. We already know he likes reading, cooking, walking, watching films, music, and travelling, while enjoying diversity in terms of worship, spirituality doctrine and theology, but we look forward to discovering more about our new Chaplain.