The Revd Mercia Malcolm, Vicar of Carnmoney, is one of 700 women priests taking part in a national celebration to mark the 20th anniversary of the ordination of women to the priesthood in the Church of England.
American academics Dr Keith Busby and Dr Brent Pitts have been drawing on Irish texts, The Red Book of Ossory and The Liber Niger respectively.
One year ago the diocese of Derry and Raphoe set itself a target to raise £100,000 to buy Mosquito Nets for Nigeria. On Wednesday (2 April) it celebrated reaching that target, having raised a grand total of £111,000.
The Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, the Rt Revd Dr Paul Colton, is delighted to announce that the Revd Cliff Jeffers has been nominated for appointment as the new Rector of the Fanlobbus Union of Parishes in West Cork.
On Sunday, 30 March 2014 the Ven Adrian Wilkinson was licensed as Archdeacon of Cork, Cloyne and Ross and installed in his seat in the Chapter of St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork.
A number of Diocesan youth workers and communications officers from across the Church of Ireland came together to focus on the opportunities and challenges of communicating through the internet and social media particularly with young people today.
The papers of the Rt Revd William Shaw Kerr (1897–1960) who was bishop of Down and Dromore from 1945 to 1955, feature as April’s online Archive of the Month presented by the Church of Ireland RCB Library.