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Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’
CIHS Conference
The autumn conference of the Church of Ireland Historical Society will be held in the Hamilton Building, Trinity College Dublin tomorrow (Saturday).
In the morning session, beginning at 11am, writer, Julie Parson, will speak on ‘”People like us”, my Church of Ireland family. Adventurers, Cromwellians, clergy, doctors, shop keepers, tenant farmers, soldiers and musicians. An exploration of identity and belonging.’ At 12 noon Cormac Allen will investigate the ecclesiastical oeuvre of the architectural practice of John Semple and Son, and in particular the constructional techniques employed in Semple’s four corbel–vaulted churches at Killeshin (1825–26), St Kevin’s Chapel of Ease Rathmines (1826–28), Abbeyleix (1828–30) and St Mary’s Chapel of Ease aka the Black Church (1828–31).
The afternoon session will begin at 2.15pm when TCD theologian, Dr Andrew Pierce, will speak on ‘George Tyrell (1861–1909): “The Travails of an Irish Gentleman in Search of Religion”’. The conference will conclude with Bridget Pierce’s paper on ‘The 1926 Prayer Book of the Church of Ireland: Doctrine, Devotion and Duty’.
In a busy week, the Archbishop of Dublin will preside at the Meath & Kildare Diocesan Synod Service and chair the Meath & Kildare Diocesan Synod in Dunboyne tomorrow (Saturday) while on Monday he will chair a meeting of the Electoral College for Meath & Kildare which will seek a successor to Bishop Pat Storey. In between these engagements Dr Jackson will preach at the Kilternan Bicentenary Service on Sunday morning, On Tuesday evening he will institute the Revd Mike Buchanan as incumbent of Tullow Parish at Tullow parish church and on Thursday afternoon he will preside at the Diocesan Schools Service in Christ Church Cathedral.
Tomorrow (Saturday) the Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin & Ardagh, Dr Ferran Glenfield, will preside at the Diocesan Synod in the Landmark Hotel while in Bandon Grammar School the new Bishop of Cork, Cloyne & Ross, the Rt Revd Andrew Orr, will preside for the first time at the Diocesan Synod.
The final recital in the autumn series of organ recitals in St Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin, will be held on Sunday at 7pm when the recitalist will be the cathedral’s organist, David Leigh.
Monkstown Parish Church is holding a series of Wednesday lunchtime recitals at 1.10pm from 7October to 4 November. Admission is free and donations will be divided between the performers and the church. Further details from [email protected]
Four new ordinands have been commissioned as Student Readers at the Church of Ireland Theological Institute. Natasha Coombes Liddle (Armagh), Andrea Black (Dublin and Glendalough), Laura McIvor (Armagh) and Eric Hughes (Dublin and Glendalough) were commissioned by Archbishop Michael Jackson during the weekly Community Eucharist. They are among seven ordinands who have embarked on their first year of study in CITI this year. The students were presented for licensing by the Revd Dr Chris MacBruithin. Student Readers are called to lead worship, proclaim the word of God and assist in the distribution of Holy Communion.