Press Releases20 Jan 16

Joint Cathedrals Service in Belfast for Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

The Annual joint cathedral service for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity was held on Tuesday 19th January in St Anne’s Cathedral Belfast. 

The choirs of St Anne’s Cathedral and St Peter’s Cathedral were united for the anthem ‘If you love me, keep my commandments’. St Peter’s choir sang How’s ‘Amor Vincit Omnia’ and St Anne’s choir contributed a beautiful French setting of the Lord’s Prayer.

The preacher was The Most Revd Bernard Longley, Archbishop of Birmingham. Amongst others taking part were the Methodist President, the Revd Brian Anderson; former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, The Revd Ivan Patterson; the Bishop of Down and Connor, Bishop Noel Treanor; the Bishop of Connor, The Rt Revd Alan Abernethy; the Archbishop of Armagh, The Most Revd Richard Clarke and Fr Hugh Kennedy, Administrator of St Peter’s Cathedral.

The service will be repeated in St Patrick’s (C of I) Cathedral Armagh on Wednesday 20th January.

Pictured above (front row l to r): the Dean of Belfast, the Bishop of Connor, the Bishop of Down and Connor, the Archbishop of Armagh, the Revd Dr Ruth Patterson, the Archbishop of Birmingham, the Revd Brian Anderson, Bishop Tony Farquhar and Fr Hugh Kennedy.