The Bishop of Truro, the Rt Revd David Williams is pleased to announce that the Revd Claire Louise Towns, at present Priest in Charge of St Thomas, Wells with the Horringtons and St Michael and All Angels, Dinder in the Diocese of Bath and Wells, is to be Priest in Charge (with oversight responsibility) of the Benefice of St Mary’s with St Paul & St John the Baptist in Penzance, the Benefice of Newlyn and the Benefice of Paul in the Diocese of Truro. This is conditional on legal formalities being completed.

She will be licensed at a place and on a date to be arranged.