Diocesan News
Two significant events on Founder’s Day at Midleton College
Midleton College, a Church of Ireland second level school in Cork, Cloyne and Ross, was founded on 23rd October 1696.
Midleton College, a Church of Ireland second level school in Cork, Cloyne and Ross, was founded on 23rd October 1696.
The first peal attempt on the recently installed Sam Maguire Community Bells in St Mary’s Church, Dunmanway, County Cork, will take place on Sunday coming, 12th November, beginning at 2.30pm.
Several hundred people attended a Service of Thanksgiving in Saint Columb’s Cathedral in Londonderry, on Tuesday evening, which commemorated the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.
The Dean of Clogher, the Very Revd Kenneth Hall, has dedicated a memorial to the 12 victims of the Enniskillen Remembrance Day bomb and the scores of those injured, on the 30th anniversary on 8th November.
Over 85 parish representatives and some independent examiners attended a charities information evening held in St Macartin’s Cathedral Hall on the evening of Thursday 19th October 2017.
On Sunday 5th November, a service was held in Swanlinbar Parish church to welcome the Revd Simon Donohoe as the new Minister–in–Charge of the Swanlinbar Group of Parishes.
A very special celebration took place on the evening of Sunday 5th November, in All Saints’ Church Mullingar. The event was to celebrate the successful conclusion of our Good for the Sole project.
Her Majesty’s Lord–Lieutenant for the County Borough of Belfast, Mrs Fionnuala Jay–O’Boyle CBE, visited Connor’s North Belfast Centre of Mission, Connect Base, on October 26.
Today, All Saints’ Day, 1st November, a group from the United Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, led by their Bishop, the Right Reverend Dr Paul Colton, will fly out of Dublin to Helsinki to make a visit to the Diocese of Borgå.
On Tuesday, 31st October, 2017, Reformation Day, the Reverend Anne Skuse was licensed by Bishop Paul Colton, to serve in a new post in the Diocese: whole–time chaplain at Bandon Grammar School.