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CONSECRATION OF NEW BISHOP OF DERRY AND RAPHOE

The new Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, the Venerable Ken Good, will be consecrated at a service in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh on Tuesday, 11 June 2002 at 2.30pm.

The Primate of All Ireland, the Most Rev Dr Robin Eames, will conduct the service, and the preacher will be the Rt. Rev Derek Eaton, Bishop of Nelson, New Zealand.

The presenting bishops are the Most Rev Dr Richard Clarke, Bishop of Meath and Kildare and the Rt. Rev Dr Richard Henderson, Bishop of Tuam, Killala and Achonry.

Archdeacon Good, 49, is the son of Canon Raymond Good, former Rector of Carrigrohane Union, Cork. He was educated at Cork Grammar School, Trinity College, Dublin and Nottingham University and has been Rector of Shankill Parish, Lurgan since 1990. He was made Archdeacon of Dromore in 1997.


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