A new Healthcare Chaplain has been appointed to Tallaght and St James’s hospitals. Patrick Ryan has been appointed by Archbishop Michael Jackson and will take up the position on February 1 2020.
The Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, the Right Reverend Dr Paul Colton, has announced that he has appointed the Reverend Paul Arbuthnot, Incumbent of Cobh and Glanmire Union of Parishes, to be also one of his domestic chaplains.
Canon Ian Jonas, rector of Carrigrohane Union of Parishes in the Diocese of Cork, has notified the Bishop, Dr Paul Colton, and announced to his parishioners, his intention to retire from stipendiary ministry on 31st July 2020.
A new rector has been appointed to the Grouped Parishes of Trory and Killadeas in Clogher Diocese.
A week of vast emotional contrasts for the Diocese of Derry and Raphoe ended on a joyful note late on Sunday afternoon with the installation of the Rt Rev Andrew Forster as Bishop of Raphoe at a service in St Eunan’s Cathedral.
The funeral has taken place in Londonderry of the Rt Revd Dr James Mehaffey, a former Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, whose friendship and joint peacebuilding with his Roman Catholic counterpart, the late Bishop Edward Daly, inspired many during some of the most violent years of the Troubles.
A Book of Condolence has been opened at the Guildhall in Derry in memory of the former Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, Dr James Mehaffey, who died yesterday evening.
The funeral of the former Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, the Rt Revd Dr James Mehaffey, will take place at St Columb’s Cathedral in Londonderry on Saturday afternoon, January 11th. The Service of Thanksgiving for Dr Mehaffey’s life will begin at 2pm.
The death has taken place in Londonderry of Rt Rev Dr James Mehaffey, a former Bishop of the Diocese of Derry and Raphoe and one of the North West’s best–known Church leaders of recent times.