Churches and chapels in Northern Ireland have until Monday, 5th October 2020, to apply for grants to carry out essential maintenance or urgent repair work in the first round of funding from the National Churches Trust’s new Treasure Ireland project.
The Rev Rhys Jones has been appointed Rector of the Balteagh and Carrick, Tamlaghtard and Aghanloo Group of Parishes. He succeeds Rev Canon David Ferry who retired in July last year.
Responses to a request to help identify people and places in the RCB Library’s lantern slide collection have joined up historic street scenes with their locations in Belfast.
The Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, Rt Rev Andrew Forster, paid his first visit to St Ann’s Church, Killult, on Sunday to dedicate two new doors which had been bequeathed by a former organist in the church.
Mothers’ Union and the Church of Ireland must be a voice of hope in difficult times. This was the message members of Dublin & Glendalough Mothers’ Union heard at their annual Diocesan Festival Service in Christ Church Bray last Thursday evening (September 10).
Last Friday evening, 11th September, the Revd Capt Richard Waller was instituted as Rector of the Kildallon Group of Parishes (Corrawallen, Kildallon and Newtongore).
Six new deacons were ordained in Connor Diocese at a service in St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, on Sunday September 13.
The Diocese of Derry and Raphoe has a new priest following Sunday evening’s ordination of the Rev Iain McAleavey at a Service in Glendermott Parish Church in Londonderry.
On Sunday 13th September in St Michael’s Church, Ballina, Bishop Patrick Rooke admitted two candidates to the Office of Deacon; the Revd Caroline Morrow and the Revd Clive Moore.
