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New Year – New Opportunities

January has brought a cluster of new and varied appointments.

A new rector has been appointed to the grouped parishes of Trory and Killadeas in Clogher Diocese. The Revd Mark Gallagher, currently serving as curate of Bangor Abbey in the Diocese of Down, served in the parish of Magheracross as a deacon and will bring his many gifts and enthusiasms to Clogher, now further enhanced by nearly three years of pastoral experience under an excellent training rector, Canon Ronnie Nesbitt of Bangor Abbey.

The Archbishop of Dublin has appointed an environment and ecology adviser to provide him with information on environmental issues and to help shape diocesan initiatives on caring for Creation. The Revd Brian O’Reilly, who is Rector of Rathdrum and Derralossary with Glenealy, has been spearheading a biodiversity project in the Diocese of Glendalough over the last year. He and parishioner and former Birdwatch Ireland chief operations officer, Oran O’Sullivan, have been visiting churchyards in the diocese to assess their suitability for biodiversity projects, such as the provision of bird and bee boxes.

A new Healthcare Chaplain has been appointed to Tallaght and St James’s hospitals. Patrick Ryan will take up the position on 1 February. Originally from Donegal, Mr Ryan studied theology in both Dublin and Berkeley, California. He brings a wealth of experience from his previous role as chaplain in Scotland with the Marie Curie Hospice Foundation as well as with St John of God and St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin.  

Dublin & Glendalough’s new Diocesan Chancellor, Ciarán Toland SC, was installed last Sunday during Choral Evensong at Christ Church cathedral. The Diocesan Chancellor is the presiding judge of the diocesan courts of both Dublin and Glendalough. Ciarán Tolan is a practising barrister and Senior Counsel at the Bar of Ireland. From Lisburn, Co. Antrim, he studied law in Trinity College Dublin and in the King’s Inns. He maintains a particular interest in EU affairs and has been a frequent activist for European integration, the dissemination of information on European affairs, the education of Irish lawyers in European law and transparency and anti–corruption with the European Union. He succeeds the Hon Mrs Justice Catherine McGuinness.

The Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross has announced that he has appointed the Revd Paul Arbuthnot, Rector of Cobh and Glanmire union of parishes, to be one of his domestic chaplains. The Bishop’s domestic chaplains now are: the Revd Anne Skuse and the Revd Paul Arbuthnot.

Today (Saturday) the Bishop Elect of Down & Dromore, the Ven, David McClay, will be consecrated in St Anne’s cathedral, Belfast.  Bishop McClay, who is Archdeacon of Down and Rector of Willowfield in Belfast, will succeed Bishop Harold Miller who has retired.

Tomorrow (Sunday) is Plough Sunday when the annual liturgy will take place in Staplestown parish church, Co. Carlow, where the rector is the Revd David White. The address will be given by Janet White, Laudato Si Officer at Trocaire.

On Friday, the series of lunchtime lectures  in Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, on ‘Disestablishment: An Historical Perspective’ concludes at 1.10pm with a lecture by the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Richard Clarke, on a ‘Church of Ireland Perspective’.

Cumann Gaelach na hEaglaise has been asked by RTÉ to record a service for St. Patrick’s Day. It will be broadcast on 15 March.  The pre–recording in the RTÉ studies will take place on Sunday 23 February.  There are limited places but if anyone would like to attend as part of the congregation, please contact gaeleaglais@gmail.com

 

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