Diocesan News
Diocesan Secretary Of Cork, Cloyne And Ross Announces Decision To Retire
Mr Wilfred Baker, Diocesan Secretary for Cork Cloyne and Ross has announced his decision to retire on 31st March, 2015.
Mr Wilfred Baker, Diocesan Secretary for Cork Cloyne and Ross has announced his decision to retire on 31st March, 2015.
This year, 2014, marks the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War and acts of remembrance throughout Cork, Cloyne and Ross took on a particular significance.
Remembrance Sunday was marked at St Mary’s Cathedral, Tuam on 9 November 2014.
The Diocesan Quiet Day was held in Saint Mary’s Catheral on 8 November. The theme of the day was ‘Compassion: Seeing with the Heart’.
The Bishop of Meath and Kildare, Bishop Pat Storey has been presented with a beautiful new wooden crozier.
The Friends of St. Columb’s Cathedral, Derry announced they had received an award of £8,100 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for a project to mark the centenary of the beginning of the War entitled, ‘Remembering Derry’s role in the First World War’.
The annual conference of the clergy of Tuam, Killala and Achonry was held at the end of October on the beautiful Lusty Beg Island in Co Fermanagh.
The Bishop of Clogher, the Rt Revd John McDowell has been invited by the Most Revd Paul Kwong Archbishop of Hong Kong to visit the Anglican Province of Hong Kong.
Marathon man Ken Tate, Sexton at St George’s Parish Church, Belfast, Diocese of Connor, has just completed a 140km race in Madagascar to raise funds for the Joseph Project.
The Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, the Right Revd Dr Paul Colton, has announced today that he has appointed the Revd Trevor Lester, Rector of Kilmoe Union of Parishes (Schull, County Cork) to be a Canon of both St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork, and also St Fachtna’s Cathedral, Rosscarbery.