Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from The Irish Times
Saturday 27 August 2005
New Canons for St Patrick?s
Tomorrow (Sunday) at Evensong in St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin, which will be sung by the Cathedral Chamber Choir, the Dean of St Patrick?s, Dr Robert MacCarthy, will install two new canons.
The Revd Janet Catterall, who is a part time stipendary priest in charge of the Mostrim group of parishes in the Diocese of Kilmore, will be installed as Prebendary of Mulhuddart in succession to the former Dean of Kilmore, the Very Revd David Godfrey who has retired. The Revd Trevor Gillian, Rector of Aghalurcher in the Diocese of Clogher, succeeds Canon R.J. Riddell to the Prebend of Donaghmore: like Dean Godfrey Canon Riddell has also retired from the stipendiary ministry.
Both the new canons were appointed by their diocesan bishops. Following disestablishment St Patrick?s was designated as a national cathedral and the chapter was reformed. Appointments to twelve of the prebendal stalls were reserved to the twelve dioceses so that each diocese of the Church of Ireland is represented on the chapter. Appointments of a further eight canons are made by the Dean and Chapter while the Prebend of Cualan is reserved for the Archbishop of Dublin and the Prebend of Tipperkevin to the Vicar of the Cathedral Group of Parishes.
The canons are in residence for two weeks each year attending the daily services and preaching at the Sung Eucharist and at Evensong.
Today (Saturday) and tomorrow (Sunday) the choir of St Andrew?s Church, Malahide, directed by Rodney Baldwin, will be in Wales where they will sing the services in the Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Paul, Llandaff. In Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, the services will be sung by the choir of St Mary?s, Hamilton.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will televise a service of Morning Prayer with the staff and members of the Church Missionary Society Ireland which will be introduced by the President of CMSI, the Revd Dr Rab Mollan. The service will include a presentation of the recent youth visit to Uganda and interviews with the CMSI Southern Regional Co-ordinator, the Revd Patrick Comerford, and the Chaplain of Trinity College, Dublin, Dr Alan McCormack, who are visiting China on behalf of the Dublin University Far Eastern Mission which was founded in 1885 in association with CMSI.
Alan McCormack, who is Chairman of DUFEM is studying Chinese in Beijing and is planning to visit churches in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Tomorrow (Sunday) Patrick Comerford , who is Secretary of DUFEM, will attend the opening of a new theological college in Guiyang, in the southern Chinese province of Guizhou, and will also visit church leaders, churches and theological colleges in Shanghai, Hangzhou and Beijing.
Wednesday brings the beginning of a new school year at the King?s Hospital and the introduction of a new chaplain, the Revd Peter Campion who succeeds the Revd Robert Whiteside. Mr Campion, who was born and educated in Canada, was ordained in the Church of Ireland in 1990 and served curacies in Holy Trinity and Ardoyne, Belfast, and Taney in Dublin. He has returned to Ireland after a period in Canada where he was chaplain in Netherwood School, Rothesday.
On Thursday evening in St James? Church, Castledermot, the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr John Neill, will institute the Revd Isaac Delamere to the incumbency of the Narraghmore group of parishes which, in addition to Casteldermot and Narraghmore churches includes Timolin and Kinneigh. Mr Delamere, who was ordained in 2002 for the curacy of Newtownards in the Diocese of Down succeeds Canon Ginnie Kennerley who has retired.