Diocesan News
’Journey Together’ Project Launched
A major new project has been launched in the North West which brings pupils from a dozen schools together to study two significant historical events which happened a century ago.
A major new project has been launched in the North West which brings pupils from a dozen schools together to study two significant historical events which happened a century ago.
More than 1,000 people were in St Anne’s Cathedral on Monday January 25 to hear three Ulster rugby players talk about their sporting careers and their Christian faith.
A year of celebration marking the 150th anniversary of Alexandra College, Dublin, began on Thursday evening (January 21) with a special service in Christ Church Cathedral.
The ‘Remembering 1916’ programme of the Church of Ireland Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross started on Friday (22nd January) with a lecture delivered in the magnificent setting of the Aula Maxima, University College Cork by Diarmaid Ferriter, Professor of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin.
While many of us will still be eating our Easter eggs, Armagh’s diocesan communications officer, Jonathan Hull, will be spending Easter week circling the roads of the Armagh Diocese on his bicycle to raise funds for the Bishops’ Appeal.
All eyes were on Irish rugby head coach, Joe Schmidt, yesterday (Wednesday, January 20). There was the significant matter of the announcement of his squad for the forthcoming Six Nations campaign but he also appeared at a special event in the Church of Ireland Theological Institute yesterday evening.
Professor Diarmaid Ferriter, Professor of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin, will deliver a lecture – 1916: New Perspectives, Old Rows – tomorrow evening, Friday, 22nd January, 2016, at 7.30 p.m.
St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh, hosted a service for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity on Wednesday, 20th January.
The annual joint Cathedral service for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in Belfast was held on Tuesday January 19 in St Anne’s Cathedral.
Canon Daniel Nuzum was one of a team of UCC researchers who contributed to a significant new Lancet report which was launched in London yesterday (19/1/16).