Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
St Patrick’s Register Published
The eleventh volume in the Representative Church Body Library’s series of parish registers has been published. The Register of the Cathedral of St Patrick, Dublin, 1677-1869, edited by J.H. Bernard and Raymond Refaussé, is a reprint of Bernard’s 1907 edition of the register which included details of baptisms, marriages and burials for the years 1677 to 1800 to which has been added the entries for 1801 to 1869 which have not been previously been published.
The 1907 edition was the second volume in a series begun by the Dublin Parish Register Society which intended to publish the oldest surviving Dublin registers. James Mills, the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records and a member of the committee of the Society, had edited the first volume in the series, that of the parish of St John the Evangelist, in 1906, and Bernard, then Dean of St Patrick’s and also a member of the committee, supplied the second. The text of the register was transcribed by the Dean’s Vicar, the Revd CHP Price, and Bernard, who was one of the great intellects of his age, provided an introduction. The register is, perhaps, best known for recording the burial of Dean Jonathan Swift on 22 October 1745 ‘at the 2d pillar from the west gate in the south side of the great isle’.
This edition has been long out of print and is difficult to obtain and so a reprint is timely. The addition of the nineteenth century materials increases the usefulness of the volume for historians and genealogists. The register may be obtained direct from the RCB Library (email) or from the St Patrick’s Cathedral shop.
This (Saturday) evening at 7.30 pm in Christ Church Cathedral there will be a performance of ‘Messiah for Hospices’ organized by the RSCM Ireland to coincide with World Hospice and Palliative Care Day.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning the Archbishop of Dublin will dedicate the new parish centre in Clontarf and in the evening will preach at a Dedication Service of Restoration Work in Christ Church Cathedral, Waterford. The Bishop of Cork will commission parish and youth workers in St Fin Barre’s Cathedral while in St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick, the preacher at the Harvest Festival Eucharist will be the parish priest of St Munchin’s, Limerick, Canon Michael Liston. In Belfast the Bishop of Tuam will preach in St Polycarp’s church as part of the parish’s 75th anniversary celebrations.
The Archbishop of Dublin is hosting the bi-annual meeting of Primates and Presiding Bishops from the British and Irish Anglican and the Nordic and Baltic Lutheran Churches. These churches are, following the signing of the Porvoo Agreement in 1992, in full communion. At 6pm on Tuesday in Christ Church Cathedral the participants in this meeting will attend Choral Eucharist at which them preacher will be Archbishop Jukka Paarma of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland.
On Thursday the new Bishop of Connor, the Rt Revd Alan Abernethy, will preside at his first Diocesan Synod in Portrush while in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, at 7pm David Adams and students will give the first in series of seven concerts in which the complete organ works of Buxtehude will be performed. In the Theological College the Archbishop of Dublin will hold a Commissioning Service for student readers,
On Friday the Bishop of Tuam will preach at the harvest Festival in Carlow while in St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, there will be a concert to mark the bicentenary of the Bible Society.