At a recent ceremony in the former Methodist Church in Allihies, County Cork, the Church of Ireland community in general, and one family particular, were honoured. The Hodges family have a 200–year connection with Allihies. The former church is now a Copper Mine Museum.
It was tea and buns all round as Bishop Harold Miller and former Great British Bake Off contestant, Martha Collison, hosted bakers from around Northern Ireland who had raised £20,000 to protect vulnerable children through Tearfund’s No Child Taken campaign.
Joyce Loney, a parishioner of Carrigaline Union of Parishes in the Diocese of Cork recently celebrated her 90th birthday. Joyce asked friends and family not to buy her anything for that milestone birthday but instead to donate to Cork’s Cuanlee Refuge for Women and Children, a charity that is supported by Joyce’s parish.
The Revd Steve Brunn has been appointed Dean of Residence and Church of Ireland Chaplain of Trinity College, University of Dublin. The appointment takes effect from the beginning of the second semester, mid–January 2016.
Dr Clare Amos of the World Council of Churches will be the guest preacher at the 11am service in St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, on Sunday November 29.
Three local clergymen are to stage a sit–out in a container in Eglinton next weekend to raise awareness of the plight of refugees. The cross–community sit–out is the brainchild of Church of Ireland Rector of Faughanvale, Rev Paul Hoey.
Church of Ireland lapel pins are now available in the gift shop at St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast.
The Dean of Connor, The Very Rev John FA Bond, will represent the Church of Ireland at the Inaugural Service of the Tenth General Synod of the Church of England at Westminster Abbey on Wednesday November 24.
The Rev Michael Parker, rector of Carnalea, Diocese of Down and Dromore, was installed as a Canon of St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, on Sunday November 15.
Congratulations to June Butler MBE, who is to become the next Diocesan President of Down and Dromore Mothers’ Union. She succeeds Joy Silcock who has held the position for the past 3 years.