Diocesan News18 Mar 2022

St Patrick’s Day celebrations resume in Down & Dromore!

The Diocese of Down and Dromore’s St Patrick’s Day celebrations were truly celebratory as they returned to near normality after two years.

Diocesan News18 Mar 2022

New publication: ‘Patrick, Ulster’s Scottish Saint’

A new publication charting centuries of shared traditions of Saint Patrick in Ulster and Scotland has been launched by the Ulster–Scots Agency to coincide with this year’s annual celebrations, and ties in with a mosaic on the saint’s life in Belfast Cathedral.

Diocesan News16 Mar 2022

News from around the Church of Ireland

Welcome to our weekly round–up of news from around the Church of Ireland’s dioceses and parishes.

Diocesan News16 Mar 2022

Installation of Bishop George Davison in Belfast Cathedral

The Rt Rev George Davison, Bishop of Connor, was installed in Belfast Cathedral at a Service of Choral Evensong on Sunday March 13.

Diocesan News16 Mar 2022

Marking the Day of Remembrance and Recognition in Cork

Following the Government announcement that 18th March 2022 would be a public holiday, described by An Tánaiste as a ‘day of remembrance and recognition’, the clergy of Cork, Cloyne and Ross agreed to open churches across the Diocese to make symbolical, liturgical and prayerful space for remembrance and recognition.

Diocesan News07 Mar 2022

Black Santa sit–out for Ukraine

‘We cannot watch and do nothing’

Belfast’s Black Santa will take to the steps of St Anne’s Cathedral on March 9 for a special sit–out to raise funds to support those fleeing the war in Ukraine.

Diocesan News07 Mar 2022

9th century crozier returns to the Shankill

Queen’s University and the Greater Shankill Partnership have been working together with the Shankill’s shamrock shaped St Matthew’s Church to mark its 150th anniversary.

Diocesan News03 Mar 2022

News from around the Church of Ireland

Welcome to our weekly round–up of news from around the Church of Ireland’s dioceses and parishes.

Diocesan News02 Mar 2022

A letter for Ash Wednesday 2022

From the Most Revd Dr Michael Jackson, Archbishop of Dublin and Bishop of Glendalough.

Diocesan News28 Feb 2022

Ulster University to honour Bishop Ken Good

A former Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, the Rt Rev Ken Good, is one of ten leaders who are to be recognised with honorary degrees by Ulster University for their “outstanding contributions” locally and globally.