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Ordination of Priests in Connor Diocese

At the Ordination Service are, from left: the Rev Isobel Hawthorne–Steele, Bishop Alan Abernethy, the Rev Dennis Christie and the Rev Aaron McAlister.
At the Ordination Service are, from left: the Rev Isobel Hawthorne–Steele, Bishop Alan Abernethy, the Rev Dennis Christie and the Rev Aaron McAlister.

St Patrick’s Parish Church, Ballymena, was packed for a Service of Ordination of Priests in Connor Diocese on Sunday September 4.

At the service, the Rev Dennis Christie was ordained to serve as curate in the Parish of Ballymena; the Rev Aaron McAlister to serve as curate in All Saints’, Antrim; and the Rev Isobel Hawthorne–Steel to serve as curate in St Paul and St Barnabas, Belfast.

They were ordained on Sunday by the Bishop of Connor, the Rt Rev Alan Abernethy, who also preached.

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