CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 27 June 1998
New Dean for Ross Cathedral
The new Dean of Ross, the Very Revd Christopher
Peters, will be installed in St Fachtna's Cathedral, Rosscarbery on
Friday. At the same time he will be instituted, by the Bishop of Cork,
Cloyne and Ross, the Rt Revd Roy Warke, to the incumbency of the Ross
union of parishes which, besides the Cathedral, includes churches at
Leap, Union Hall, Glandore and Castleventry. The preacher at the service
will be the Revd Norman McCausland, Chaplain-Tutor in the Church of
Ireland Theological College.
The new dean is a history graduate of the University
of Oxford who received his theological education at Oak Hill College,
London. He was ordained in 1982 for the curacy of Knockbreda in Belfast
and after a second curacy in Lisburn Cathedral was instituted to the
incumbency of Kilmocomogue union of parishes in Co. Cork. He remained in
Bantry and Durrus for six years before his appointment as Rector of
Killiney-Ballybrack in Co. Dublin in 1993.
Mr Peters returns to the united diocese of Cork,
Cloyne and Ross to succeed the Very Revd Robert Townley who is now Dean
of Kildare.
Today (Saturday) the Annual Meeting of the Friends of
St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny will be held in the Cathedral and
afterwards in the Deanery. In Cork the Bodo Cathedral Choir and
Cathedral Youth Choir from Norway will give a concert in St Fin Barre's
Cathedral while in St Peter's Church, Bandon there will be a concert by
the Decatur Civic Chorus from Georgia, USA.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will televise Morning Service
with the congregation of the Cathedral Church of St John the Baptist,
Cashel where the Dean is the Very Revd Dr Philip Knowles. BBC Radio
Ulster will carry a service from St Finian's Church, Belfast conducted
by Canon Noel Battye and this service will also be broadcast on BBC
Radio Four at 8.05 am. In Co. Meath the Annual Open Air Service will be
held on the Hill of Tara where the preacher will be the Revd Bernie
Dooly from St John's Cathedral, Jacksonville in the Diocese of Florida.
The Petertide ordinations conclude this week.
Tomorrow (Sunday), in Christ Church Cathedral, the Archbishop of Dublin,
Dr Walton Empey, will ordain the Revds Bernie Daly, Andrew McLennan,
David Palmer and Olive Henderson to the priesthood and on Monday, St
Peter's Day, the Bishop of Derry, Dr James Mehaffey, will ordain John
Cunningham to the diaconate to serve in Drumachose, Limavady.
On Monday Dr Harold Hislop will begin work in Church
of Ireland House as Education Officer and Secretary to the General Synod
Board of Education. Prior to this appointment he was Principal of
Whitechurch National School and part time lecturer in Teacher Training
in Trinity College, and was, from 1995 to 1997, a development officer
with the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment. The Chapel
Choir of Magdalen College, Cambridge will sing Evensong in St Patrick's
Cathedral, Dublin and, on Wednesday, in St Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork
where they will give a concert on Thursday evening.
Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin has appointed Mr
Christopher Sheil as Administrator with effect from Wednesday. Mr Sheil
was, until recently, joint managing director of the pharmacy chain,
Hayes, Conyngham and Robinson and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute
of Secretaries, and an alumnus of the Harvard Graduate School of
Business Administration.
The lunchtime recital in St Patrick's Cathedral,
Dublin on Wednesday will be given by Mark Duley, Organist of Christ
Church Cathedral, while in Christ Church on Friday at 1.15 pm there will
be an organ recital by Michael Bawtree.
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