Welcome to the new Rector After a lengthy period without our own priest, we are now delighted to be able to announce the appointment of the Reverend Catherine Cowie as Rector of the Benefice of Beaulieu, Exbury and East Boldre. Catherine’s ministry among us started at a ‘licensing’ service conducted in the Abbey Church by the Bishop of Winchester, the Right Reverend Philip Mounstephen. Catherine comes to us from a rural Benefice in the Diocese of Gloucester. I am sure that all members of the congregations of Beaulieu Abbey Church, of St Katharine’s Exbury, of St Pauls, East Boldre and of St Mary’s Chapel, Bucklers Hard, and indeed all the parishioners of Beaulieu, Exbury and East Boldre join with the members of the three Parochial Church Councils, warmly to welcome Catherine, her husband Alexander and children Alan and Artemis, to our community. A Notice from from the Church Wardens of the Benefice of Beaulieu, Exbury & East Boldre