The annual Diocesan Service for Primary Schools, held in St Peter’s Church, Bandon, on Thursday, 28th September, was attended by nearly 600 pupils and teachers from the twenty–one primary schools in the United Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne and Ross.
The annual Down & Dromore and Connor Organ Scholarship Service took place in St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, on Sunday October 1.
“Do good law, but don’t apply it to your salvation and your relationship with God.” This was the message of the President of the Methodist Church in Ireland, the Revd Dr Laurence Graham, to the congregation at the Michaelmas Law Term Service at St Michan’s Church, Dublin, on Monday October 3.
Mullaghdun Parish Church, which is part of the group of parishes of Cleenish and Mullaghdun in Clogher Diocese, has been marking its 200th anniversary with a special Service of Thanksgiving and a celebratory lunch for parishioners.
The life of the most senior bell–ringer of St Macartin’s Cathedral, Enniskillen, Mr Stewart Scott, was celebrated on Saturday, 30th September, with the peal of 10 bells ringing as his funeral cortege arrived at the Cathedral.
yKEA (youth of the Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh) has hosted two Schools’ Services of Harvest Thanksgiving.
The Rt. Revd. Dr. Ferran Glenfield, Church of Ireland Bishop of Kilmore, will deliver a series of three public lectures on the Story of the Reformation in the Johnston Central Library in Cavan on Thursdays 5th, 19th and 26th October at 7:30pm.
A historic afternoon at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, saw the installation of the first Lay and Ecumenical Canons by Dean Dermot Dunne.
On Thursday evening, 28th September, the Revd Ruth West was instituted as Rector of the Florencecourt Group of Parishes – Killesher (St John’s and Druminiskill Chapel of Ease and Killinagh).
At Diocesan Synod, Bishop Patrick Rooke announced that he has appointed the Revd Stephen McWhirter to be Archdeacon of Killala and Achonry to succeed the Revd Alan Synnott.
