Diocesan News
Eye–catching New Logos On St Anne’s Cathedral Choir Buses
If the people of Belfast City and beyond hadn’t realised that St Anne’s Cathedral has a host of vibrant young choristers in its choirs, then they will know about it now.
If the people of Belfast City and beyond hadn’t realised that St Anne’s Cathedral has a host of vibrant young choristers in its choirs, then they will know about it now.
A team from Christ Church, Lisburn, was commissioned on Sunday15 February in preparation for a mission trip to Uganda departing on 18 February.
Mrs Marie Norton, a parishioner of Bandon Union of Parishes, in the Diocese of Cork, trained, and was licensed, as a Reader in the Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf while she and her husband Fred were living in Qatar. Having returned to live in West Cork Marie has now been licensed to serve as a Reader in the Church of Ireland within the United Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne and Ross.
Something as simple as a pair of sandals can help protect families from poverty and despair. That is why the Church of Ireland dioceses of Meath and Kildare has launched its Good For The Sole Project to buy 10,000 pairs of sandals in Karigiri in Tamil Nadu, India.
Celbridge and Straffan with Newcastle–Lyons began a new chapter last night (Thursday 12 February) as parishioners welcomed their new Rector. The Revd Canon Stephen Neill was instituted as Incumbent by the Archbishop of Dublin, the Most Revd Dr Michael Jackson in Christ Church, Celbridge.
Around 500 people from across the diocese and beyond gathered in St Macartin’s Cathedral, Enniskillen on the Second Sunday before Lent, 8 February 2015, to mark an important occasion in the life of Clogher Diocese with the Installation of three members of the clergy to the Chapter of the two Cathedrals in the Diocese.
The rector of St Ninian’s Parish is trying to trace relatives of loved ones whose ashes are held in the columbarium of the north Belfast church.
Dublin’s Black Santa fulfilled the second part of his role yesterday, (Sunday 8 February), as €35,000 was handed out to charities at a service in St Ann’s, Dawson Street.
A new Rector has been appointed to Kilmoremoy Union of Parishes. Revd Stephen Joseph McWhirter was elected by the Board of Nomination which sat on Friday 30 January 2015.