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James O'Grady outside his shed - © Birmingham Post
Father James O'Grady outside his holy shed
James O'Grady inside his shed - © Birmingham Post
Father James O'Grady inside his holy shed

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Some men worship their sheds but James O'Grady doesn't just worship his, he worships in it. It may not be on the scale of a cathedral, but it does just fine for him.

Father James O'Grady is a priest in the Greek Orthodox Church, an ancient religion, older than Roman Catholicism. It's followed beneath the vaulted roofs of some of the finest ecclesiastic architecture in, largely, eastern Europe and Russia. And also in a back garden, in a shed, in Wolverhampton.

Paul Heiney finds out more...


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