The Church Leaders Group (Ireland) met with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, the Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, on Wednesday (6 November) in Assembly Buildings, Belfast, at what was the Group’s first meeting with Mr Benn since he was appointed in July.
As we share the good news that St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh, will become more familiar to many people sending and receiving mail this Christmas, we celebrate the stories of all five cathedrals which are being featured in this unique way.
Royal Mail has today announced that an original illustration of St Patrick’s Church of Ireland Cathedral, Armagh, will feature as the Second Class Large Class stamp for its Christmas special stamps in 2024.
Archbishop John McDowell and Archbishop Eamon Martin will share reflections on the lives and service of two wartime military chaplains on BBC Radio 4’s Sunday Worship programme for Remembrance Sunday (10th November).
Archbishop John McDowell, the Church of Ireland’s Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, this afternoon preached at The Royal Irish Regiment’s annual Service of Remembrance in Belfast Cathedral, which marked this year’s 80th anniversaries of the Normandy Landings and the Liberation of Rome, in which several of its predecessor regiments took part.
An article by Archbishop John McDowell and Archbishop Eamon Martin, published in today’s Belfast Telegraph and Irish News.
In March this year, the Church of Ireland and the Moravian Church in Britain and Ireland had the joy and privilege of celebrating a new ecumenical relationship between the two denominations based on the Armagh Agreement.
Bishop Andrew Forster has told delegates at the Derry & Raphoe Diocesan Synod (held on Wednesday, 23rd October) that he has no intention of closing any parish church in the Diocese.
Taking words from the Epistle of the day as the theme for his Presidential Address, the Bishop of Cashel, Ferns and Ossory, the Rt Revd Adrian Wilkinson reminded Cashel Diocesan Synod members of St Paul’s prayer for the Christian community in Ephesus, that they would have the ‘eyes’ of their ‘heart enlightened’.
