Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from The Irish Times
Installation of Dean of Christ Church
On Monday evening the Dean of Christ Church, Dublin, the Very Revd Desmond Harman, will be installed. Dean Harman will be the 34th Dean of Christ Church and the 67th head of the house since the appointment in c.1171, of Gervase as Prior of Holy Trinity. The Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, commonly called Christ Church, which was founded in c. 1030 by an Irish bishop Dunan, and a Viking king, Sitric, was developed by Archbishop Laurence O?Toole as a priory of Augustinian canons. At the dissolution of the religious houses in the 16th century the priory was re-founded as a secular cathedral and the then prior, Robert Paynswick, became the first dean.
His latest successor is well known in the Diocese of Dublin where he has spent his entire clerical career. Ordained in 1967 for the curacy of Taney, Dean Harman was appointed Rector of Santry and Glasnevin in 1983 and since 1986 has been Rector of Sandford and Milltown. As editor of the diocesan magazine, Church Review, he developed a comprehensive knowledge of the diocese and its personalities and became, in turn, a well known, respected and influential figure in Dublin and Glendalough.
The new dean?s associations with Christ Church date from 1991 when he was appointed to the chapter where, since 2002, he has been Canon Treasurer. He has been a valued member of the Cathedral Board and its committees and so, for a new dean, is, perhaps, unusually familiar with the workings of the institutions which he now heads.
This morning (Saturday) in Dublin there will be a Spring Sale at All Saints Church, Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock, while at noon, in Co. Donegal, the annual Derry and Raphoe Diocesan Service for the GFS will be held in Laghey parish church. This evening in All Saints Church, Fenagh, Co. Carlow, the Diocesan Choir from St Patrick?s Cathedral, Trim, will give a concert in aid of the restoration of Myshall Church.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning the preacher in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, will be Canon Marilyn McCord Adams, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford. Dr Adams is the first woman divinity professor in England?s oldest university and she is preaching in Ireland?s oldest university as part of the celebrations to mark the contribution of women to the life of Trinity. In Powerscourt parish church the Enniskerry Gospel Choir will sing at the evening Eucharist when the preacher, Canon Richard Bertram, will speak about caring for people at times of greatest need.
The Clogher Clergy Conference will begin in Dunfanaghy on Monday and continue until Wednesday. The theme is ?Vital Connections ? Youth and Children?s Ministry Today? and the Bishop Of Clogher, Dr Jackson, has invited Ms Diana Murrie, Church of England Advisor on Children?s Ministry, and Mr. David Brown, Director of the Church of Ireland Youth Department, to lead the conference.
On Tuesday the Archbishop of Armagh will address the Church of Ireland Men?s Society on ?Structures in Anglicanism? and on Friday he will re-dedicate St Patrick?s Cathedral, Armagh, following extensive renovation and the installation of a new heating system.
In St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin, on Wednesday at 6.30 pm the first in a new series of organ recitals will be given by Professor Gerard Gillen, from the Music Department of NUI, Maynooth, who is Titular Organist in St Mary?s Pro-Cathedral, Dublin.
On Friday evening the Bishop of Cashel and Ossory, will institute the Revd William Ritchie, formerly Vicar of St Bartholomew?s, Dublin, to the incumbency of the Tullow group of parishes.
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