CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 20th January 2001
From: The RCB Library
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Consecration of Bishop of Kilmore
Last November at an electoral college in Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan, the
Ven Kenneth Clark was elected as Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh in
succession to the Rt Revd Michael Mayes who is now Bishop of Limerick and
Killaloe. On Thursday, in St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh, Archdeacon
Clarke will be consecrated a bishop and he will be enthroned in St
Fethlimidh's Cathedral, Kilmore, on 18 February and in St Mary's
Cathedral, Sligo, on 25 February.
The new bishop was ordained in 1972 and after curacies in Magheralin
and Dundonald he worked with the Anglican Church in Chile as a missionary
for the South American Missionary Society.
On his return to Ireland in 1981 he was appointed to Crinken, a trustee
church in Co. Dublin, and in 1986 became Rector of Coleraine. Under his
leadership Coleraine has developed into the numerically largest parish in
the Church of Ireland and the church has been completely restored. Since
1998 he has, in addition to his parochial responsibilities, been
Archdeacon of Dalriada while also retaining his interest in South America
as chairman of SAMS (Ireland).
Clearly Bishop Clarke will bring an impressive range of skills and much
valuable experience to his new ministry and the times ahead promise to be
exciting for the people of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning RTE will broadcast Parish Communion
from St Ann's Church, Dawson Street, Dublin, where the rector is Canon
Adrian Empey. The Dean of Ross, the Very Revd Christopher Peters, will
preach the last of the current series of chapter sermons in St Fin Barre's
Cathedral, Cork, while in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, the
preacher at the Sung Eucharist will be the Revd Dr Bert Tosh, Head of
Religious Broadcasting in BBC Northern Ireland. The Bishop of Cashel and
Ossory will visit Templemore. In Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, the
Girls' Choir will sing Evensong when new choristers will be admitted.
As part of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity the Revd Dr Johnston
McMaster, a Methodist with the Irish School of Ecumenics in Belfast, will
preach tomorrow (Sunday) in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, while
the founding father of the ISE, Fr Michael Hurley SJ, will preach in
Waterford Cathedral. On Monday the Chaplain of Trinity College, Dublin, Dr
Alan McCormack, will be a speaker at the Greenhills Ecumenical Conference
and on Thursday the Bishop of Meath and Kildare will speak at an
ecumenical gathering in Kylemore Abbey. The Primus of the Episcopal Church
of Scotland, the Most Revd Bruce Cameron, will preach at united services
in St Peter's Cathedral, Belfast, on Tuesday and St Patrick's Cathedral,
Armagh on Wednesday.
The Standing Committee of the General Synod will meet in Church of
Ireland House, Dublin, on Tuesday and the bishops will meet on Wednesday.
On Tuesday the European Cathedrals Conference will open in Dublin. The
conference, which is being held in Ireland for the first time, has as its
theme "The Cathedral as a Place of Unity". It will be based in
Christ Church Cathedral but there will also be sessions in St Patrick's
and St Mary's Pro-Cathedral. Each of the Dublin cathedral's
"heads", the Dean of Christ Church, the Dean of St Patrick's and
the Administrator of St Mary's, will speak as will the Administrator of St
Peter's Cathedral, Belfast. There will be contributions also from the
Bishop of Meath and Kildare and from Canon Kenneth Kearon, Director of the
Irish School of Ecumenics. The involvement of Mark Duley and Andrew
Johnstone will emphasise the important part which music plays in cathedral
life.
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