Diocesan News16 Jan 09

Installation of New Dignitaries in Christ Church cathedral, Dublin

The unusually large number of four new dignitaries will be installed in at Christ Church cathedral, Dublin this Sunday 18 January 2009 at 3.30pm during evensong. The positions are those of the archdeacon of Glendalough, precentor, treasurer and twelfth canon.

Canon Ricky Rountree, currently treasurer on the cathedral chapter, will be installed as the new archdeacon of Glendalough. The Revd Peter Campion has been elected by the chapter to the position of precentor, a position next in seniority to the dean. Canon John McCullagh, formerly secretary to the Church of Ireland's Secondary Education Committee and recently appointed to the incumbency of Rathdrum, Derralossary with Glenealy will be installed as treasurer (the fourth of the 'four square' dignitaries: dean, precentor, chancellor and treasurer). The Revd Ted Ardis, rector of Donnybrook and Irishtown, will be installed as the twelfth canon.

The installations, which take place in the context of choral evensong, will be sung by the cathedral choir and include Shephard 'Preces and responses', canticles by Brewer: 'Evening Service in D' with an anthem by Gustav Holst 'This have I done for my true love'.

All are most welcome to attend. Tea will be served in the crypt afterwards to which all are warmly invited. There is no parking available in the cathedral grounds, and those wishing to attend the service should use the St Werburgh's Street car park behind Jury's Christchurch Inn.

For details of Canon Rountree's appointment, please click here.
For the Revd Peter Campion's appointment, please click here.
For Canon John McCullagh and the Revd Ted Ardis, please click here.