Taizé is a small town in the Burgundy region of France where a monastic community, founded in 1940 by Brother Roger Schütz, has been the focus of Christian pilgrimage from all over the world. The community has become well-known through it’s simple, chant-like style of worship and prayer, and is especially popular with young people, with over 100,000 making pilgrimages to Taizé every year for prayer, study and communal work.

Bishop Jonathan will once again be leading a group of young people from our schools to Taizé this year. Pupils from both Christ the King College and The Bay will be embarking on a eight-day trip in June to experience this unique and wonderfully spiritual community. Bishop Jonathan led the first diocesan pilgrimage of young people to Taizé in July 2023. You can read about it here.

In addition, there will hopefully also be an opportunity for young adults from our diocese, between the ages of 18 and 29, to join the Diocese of Bath and Wells on a trip to Taizé from July 13-21. For more details, please contact Amanda Collinson, the Bishop’s Chaplain, on 02392 899692.

You can find out what goes on at the Taizé community on their website here, and read about the history of the community here.