Grace Abounds - Episode 11: Most Rev John Wilson, Archbishop of Southwark (UK)

He leads one of the most closely watched local Churches in the English-speaking world. Archbishop John Wilson has been Archbishop of Southwark, south London and Kent, since 2019. In 2023 he launched Called to Bear Fruit, a synodal renewal process to equip parishes to evangelise, form disciples and inspire witness. The fruits are hard to ignore. This year more than 590 adults stood at the Rite of Election in St George's Cathedral, the highest in a single year since 2011, from 112 parishes, and strikingly young, with half aged 35 or under. But, as Archbishop John Wilson admits, he did not come to Southwark to manage decline. Visiting Sydney as a Plenary speaker at the Live-in Clergy Conference and as a guest speaker at the Scholarship at the Cathedral event on August 13, he spoke with the Sydney Centre for Evangelisation's Darren Ally for this episode of Grace Abounds.