The Transferor Representatives' Council (TRC) has welcomed the retention of the right of the Protestant Churches to nominate governors for Controlled schools within legislation introduced to establish the Education and Skills Authority (ESA).
2009 marks the 400th Anniversary of the issue of Letters Patent by King James 1, in 1609. This Royal Charter formally constituted Cathedrals in Downpatrick and Dromore as well as St Saviour, Connor in Lisburn Cathedral.
The All-Ireland Churches Consultative Meeting on Racism's (AICCMR) new Directory of Migrant-Led Churches and Chaplaincies (which received partnership support from the Church of Ireland's Hard Gospel Project) was launched in Belfast on Friday 5th December 2008, by Fr Irenaeus du Plessis at Edgehill College, and in Tallaght, Dublin on Sunday 7th December by Minister for Integration, Conor Lenihan TD. Images from the launches provided.
It was announced today [Sunday 7 December 2008] that the Revd David Gillespie, Rector of Moy (Dungannon, Co Tyrone) in the Diocese of Armagh will be the next Vicar of St Ann's and St Stephen's Churches in Dublin City Centre.
Belfast-based chamber choir Priory II will give its inaugural concert on Friday 12 December under new conductor Nigel McClintock. The concert will be held at 7:30pm in the recently impressively refurbished St Thomas’ Parish Church, Lisburn Road/Eglantine Avenue, Belfast (Connor Diocese).
The Church of Ireland Commission for Christian Unity and Dialogue has heard with deep regret of the death of His Holiness, Patriarch Alexiy II and offers its condolences to the Russian Orthodox Church and in particular its members in Ireland.
The Most Revd Alan Harper, OBE, Archbishop of Armagh, and the Most Revd John Neill, Archbishop of Dublin, wish to express to the clergy and people of the Russian Orthodox Church, and especially those in Ireland, their sincere sympathy on the announcement today of the death of His Holiness, Patriarch Alexiy II, following a period of illness, in Moscow. We assure the people of the Russian Orthodox Church of our prayers at this time of sadness and transition.
The Revd Gillian Withers was instituted as Rector of the grouped Parishes of Greyabbey and Kircubbin with Ballyphilip and Ardquin by the Rt Revd Harold Miller on Thursday 4th December.
A new Directory listing 361 migrant-led churches and chaplaincies now existing across Ireland is to be launched on Friday 5th December in Belfast by Fr Irenaeus du Plessis of Belfast’s Antiochian Orthodox Church and in Dublin by the Minister for Integration, Mr Conor Lenihan TD on Sunday 7th December. Compiled by the All-Ireland Churches Consultative Meeting on Racism (AICCMR), the directory gives the first real snapshot of the diversity of Christian practice in Ireland today, as well as a practical source of information.