Diocesan News
New rector instituted to the Grouped Parishes of Kilskeery and Trillick
The parishioners of the Grouped Parishes of Kilskeery and Trillick in Clogher Diocese have welcomed their new rector.
The parishioners of the Grouped Parishes of Kilskeery and Trillick in Clogher Diocese have welcomed their new rector.
The House of Bishops, at its meeting in Dublin yesterday (Wednesday, 18th September), confirmed the appointment of the Ven Andrew Forster, Archdeacon of Ardboe, as Bishop–designate of the United Dioceses of Derry and Raphoe.
Our Assistant Director of Music has been appointed! And it’s a familiar face.
In Ireland’s most southerly Church of Ireland diocese, Cork, Cloyne and Ross, the summer holiday months of June, July and August, are one of the busiest times of the year.
“Don’t be greetin’,” the new Rector of Errigal and Desertoghill told a tearful former parishioner, in her best Ulster Scots, after last Thursday evening’s emotional Service of Institution in St Paul’s Church, Garvagh.
The Revd Helene T Steed, Rector of St Mark’s, Dundela, was among the Anglican Communion’s representatives at the International Reformed–Anglican Dialogue (IRAD) which met in Hiroshima in August.
The life and legacy of the late Bishop Donald Caird (1925–2017) was remembered on Saturday (14 September) when the Cúinne Caird was opened in his memory at the Representative Church Body Library – the Church of Ireland’s central reference library and repository of archives.
It’s nearly here – the event that is the 2019 National Ploughing Championships – and here in the Diocese of Cashel, Ferns and Ossory we’ve been very busy organising the Church of Ireland stand.
Recently, story boards have been designed so that visitors will have the opportunity to learn something about the Church of Ireland: the traditions and practices of the community who worship in St Mary’s Church today.