The Archbishop of Armagh participated in the Merriman Summer School in Lisdoonvarna, Co. Clare on Thursday 15th August by giving a paper at a panel discussion entitled ‘An Anglican and Catholic view of religion and society in the two Irelands’.
A large congregation filled Belleek Parish Church in County Fermanagh on the evening of Friday 9 August 2013, to mark an important milestone in the life of the Garrison, Slavin, Belleek and Kiltyclogher group of parishes as they welcomed their new rector, the Revd Ngozi Njoku.
In terms of relationship building and new understandings between people who are different, not least members of the different faiths in Ireland, as elsewhere, it is often the things unseen rather than those in the limelight that can have unmeasured significance.
On 12 June the diocese of Derry and Raphoe marked the retirement of Archdeacon Scott Harte with a special lunch in the Diocesan Office in Londonderry. The Archdeacon of Raphoe retires on 6 August 2013.