Diocesan News
Derry & Raphoe Diocesan Synod 2024
Bishop Andrew Forster has told delegates at the Derry & Raphoe Diocesan Synod (held on Wednesday, 23rd October) that he has no intention of closing any parish church in the Diocese.
Bishop Andrew Forster has told delegates at the Derry & Raphoe Diocesan Synod (held on Wednesday, 23rd October) that he has no intention of closing any parish church in the Diocese.
Taking words from the Epistle of the day as the theme for his Presidential Address, the Bishop of Cashel, Ferns and Ossory, the Rt Revd Adrian Wilkinson reminded Cashel Diocesan Synod members of St Paul’s prayer for the Christian community in Ephesus, that they would have the ‘eyes’ of their ‘heart enlightened’.
A Meeting of the Diocesan Synods of the United Diocese of Tuam, Limerick and Killaloe was held at the Hotel Woodstock in Ennis on Saturday, 19th October 2024.
A series of free lunchtime lectures will be held at Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin this November 2024 on Tuesdays at 1.10pm on the subject of ‘Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924): Composer, Conductor, Professor’.
The 2024 Armagh Diocesan Synod took place on Tuesday, 22nd October and included the announcement of a new link with a diocese in the Church of Burundi.
The Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh Synod took place on Saturday (12th October) in Carrick–on–Shannon.
Clogher Diocesan Synod took place recently in Enniskillen Cathedral Halls, on Thursday, 26th September 2024.
The 2024 Cork, Cloyne and Ross Diocesan Synod took place in Bandon Grammar School on Saturday, 5th October 2024.
The angels in the Bible offer a good job description for the Church, according to the former Archbishop of Canterbury, the Rt Revd Lord Rowan Williams.
Those involved in the justice system were reminded at the Annual Law Service in St Michan’s Church in Dublin yesterday morning (Monday October 7) that that the vision of justice in this part of the world remained avowedly Christian.