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HONORARY DEGREE FOR FORMER ARCHBISHOP
ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE MAYNOOTH HONOURS DR DONALD CAIRD
| The former Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Donald Caird, was one of three Protestant churchmen honoured by St Patrick's College Maynooth when they were conferred with the honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy by the college on Monday 16 September 2002. The Revd Raymond Davey of the Presbyterian Church and the Revd Edmund Mawhinney, of the Methodist Church were also honoured. The degrees were conferred by Cardinal Desmond Connell, Chancellor of the Pontifical University, St Patrick's College, Maynooth, in a ceremony in the College Chapel. Bishop Caird was Archbishop of Dublin, Bishop of Glendalough and Primate of Ireland from 1985 - 1996. In retirement he has been Visiting Professor of Anglican Studies at the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America in New York. The Reverend Robert Raymond Davey is a former Director of the Corrymeela Centre for Reconciliation, Ballycastle. The Reverend Edmund T.I Mawhinney, a former President of the Methodist Church in Ireland and currently the church's Secretary, was President of the Irish Council of Churches from 1997 to 1999. |
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