The Bishop of Shrewsbury has inaugurated an historic Stockport church as a Eucharistic shrine of perpetual adoration in a major initiative of prayer for priestly vocations.

The Rt Rev. Mark Davies has dedicated St Joseph’s Church in the town centre of Stockport as “a place of continuous Eucharistic adoration with a special mission to intercede for new and generous vocations to the priesthood and the sanctification of priests”. 

Catholics are being invited to sign up to participate in a schedule of adoration of the Blessed Sacrament that there may be sufficient numbers for this prayer to continue from morning till evening.