The Revd Ása Björk Ólafsdóttir is an Icelandic woman who is the Church of Ireland rector for Christ Church in Dún Laoghaire.
The Archbishop of Hong Kong, The Most Revd Dr Paul Kwong, visited St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast today as part of an official visit to the Church of Ireland this week. The service was followed by lunch with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
In his first presidential address to the Armagh Synod since becoming Archbishop of Armagh late last year, Archbishop Richard Clarke spoke of how ‘As Christian disciples we need to be aware of what should be the most important aspects of what we are, and what we most clearly are, to ourselves and to others … and to God.’
St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, has been re–structuring its music department, having established a girls’ choir and actively seeking to recruit boys for a newly constituted boys’ choir. As a central part of this project, the Cathedral is pleased to announce that it is to create an ecumenical and cross–community ‘Choir School’.
A brand new series of selected dissertations emerging from Masters (MTh) students at the Church of Ireland Theological Institute was launched at CITI on Wednesday 9 October by distinguished guest Canon Dr Christina Baxter.
Anglican and Oriental Orthodox Church leaders who met at the historic Hampton Court over the weekend shared not only prayer, worship and fellowship, but also their fears about the future of Christianity in the Middle East.
The Inter–Church Committee representing the member churches of the Irish Council of Churches and the Irish Episcopal Conference has today issued a statement in advance of the Suicide Prevention and Pastoral Care Seminar for Clergy being held on 9 October 2013 in Derry/Londonderry organised by the Irish Churches Churches Peace Project.
The Church of Ireland Annual New Law Term Service took place in St Michan’s Church, Church Street, Dublin, this morning, Monday October 7 at 10.15 am.
As the new academic year gets underway, the Revd Dr Maurice Elliott, Director the Church of Ireland Theological Institute, spoke to the Church of Ireland Press Officer, Paul Harron, about the year ahead at CITI.