Diocesan News
Limerick and Killaloe Annual Clergy Conference 2016
The L&K Diocesan Conference was again held in the beautiful surroundings of the Dingle peninsula, posing the perpetual question why anyone would ever want to live anywhere but Kerry.
The L&K Diocesan Conference was again held in the beautiful surroundings of the Dingle peninsula, posing the perpetual question why anyone would ever want to live anywhere but Kerry.
A large crowd gathered in St David’s Church, Naas on Sunday 23 October. The occasion was the launch of Food for the Sole cookbook. It is a cookbook with a difference, as proceeds will help change lives.
St Luke’s Day was celebrated in St Luke’s Church, Douglas, Cork, with a special school Service. The focus was on Luke who is described in the Bible as a physician.
The Diocese of Down and Dromore was in good heart when it met for the annual Synod in Holywood Parish Church on 20 October 2016.
The fact that around 90 people turned up on a wet Saturday morning for a special event to honour the career of Dr Raymond (Ray) Refaussé (who retired from the RCB Library earlier this year) spoke volumes about the high esteem in which he is held not only within Church of Ireland circles but the wider archival profession in Ireland.
The cookbook with a difference! Leprosy still exists in some parts of the world and particularly in India. For the last two years we have been running our ‘Good for the Sole’ project in partnership with Leprosy Mission.
The Rev Mark Niblock, Dean’s Vicar at St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, has been appointed a Canon of the Cathedral by the Bishop of Connor, the Rt Rev Alan Abernethy.
The Annual Joint Meeting of the Diocesan Synods of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh took place on Saturday 15th October in Carrick–on–Shannon, Co. Leitrim. The Synod was preceded by a celebration of The Holy Communion in St George’s Church which began with the commissioning of Hannah O’Neill and Marian Edwards as our new Diocesan Youth and Children’s workers.
The Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, The Most Revd Dr Richard Clarke, delivered his Presidential Synod Address at the 2016 Armagh Diocesan Synod in the Alexander Synod Hall, Church House, Armagh on Tuesday, 18th October 2016.