CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 24th June 2000
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Petertide Ordinations
In the coming week there will be Petertide ordinations in Armagh,
Dublin, Belfast, Downpatrick and Kilmore.
Today (Saturday) the Archbishop of Armagh will ordain to the
diaconate Hilary Dungan, David Luckman and Alan Millar. Tomorrow
(Sunday) the Archbishop of Dublin will ordain three deacons, Avril
Bennett, Patrick Comerford and Timothy Close, and one priest, the Revd
Roy Byrne, in Christ Church Cathedral where the preacher will be the
Archdeacon of Dublin, the Ven. Gordon Linney. This is the second year in
which the Diocese of Dublin has experimented with the innovation of
ordaining deacons and priests at the same service.
Elsewhere the ordinations are all to the priesthood. The Bishop of
Kilmore will ordain the Revd Noel Regan, while the Bishop of Down and
Dromore will ordain the Revd Craig McCauley, Revd Andrew McCroskery,
Revd William Press and Revd Marie Walshe at a service in Down Cathedral
where the preacher will be Canon Michael Burrows. In St Peter's Church,
Belfast, where the preacher will be the Rt Revd Martin Lind, Bishop of
Linkoping, Sweden, the Bishop of Connor will raise to the priesthood the
Revd Ronald Elsdon, Revd Elizabeth Henderson, Revd Paul Jack and Revd
Terence Kerr.
The ordinations in Belfast are also a part of the celebrations to
mark the centenary of St Peter's Church which was consecrated on 29 June
1900. Tomorrow (Sunday) the Bishop of Meath and Kildare, Dr Richard
Clarke, will preach at the Sung Eucharist while on Thursday, St Peter's
Day, the Bishop of Connor will preside at Festival Evensong at which the
preacher will be the Revd J.R.B. McDonald who was ordained a curate for
the parish in June 1941. St Peter's church, where the rector is the Revd
Charles McCollum, is situated on the Antrim Road. It is built in the
Gothic style using Scrabo sandstone, and the parish has a fine tradition
of choral music.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the Dioceses of Cashel and Ossory will gather in
the Waterford Institute of Technology for a Celebration of Faith while
in Co. Meath the preacher at the annual Open Air Service on the Hill of
Tara will be the Rector of Navan, the Revd John Clarke. In St Patrick's
Church, Monaghan, a thirty-one strong team from the Diocese of Clogher
will be commissioned for a visit to Kenya next month. In Dublin the
Irish Guards will celebrate the centenary of the regiment at Matins in
St Patrick's Cathedral. The hymns will be accompanied by the regimental
band and the preacher will be a son of the Church of Ireland, Canon
Gerry Murphy, who served as an army chaplain for twenty two years. In
Christ Church Cathedral the Annual Parade Service of the St John's
Ambulance Brigade will take place at the Sung Eucharist when the
preacher will be the Revd Anne Taylor, curate of Rathfarnham.
Traditionally this service is held on the Sunday nearest to the feast of
their patron, St John the Baptist.
On Tuesday the Church of Ireland Broadcasting Committee will visit
the studios of Lyric FM in Limerick, while in Kinsale the Pro Musica
Choir from Dalarna in Sweden will give a recital in St Multose' church
with the proceeds going to the Tower Restoration Fund. On Wednesday the
Chaplain of Trinity College, Dr Alan McCormack and the Chapel Choir
leave for a tour of New York.
The Bishop of Cashel and Ossory, the Rt Revd John Neill, has
appointed the Revd Philip Heak as Diocesan Youth Officer for the united
dioceses of Cashel and Ossory. Mr Heak, who is presently curate
assistant in Galway, will take up his new post in October.
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