We welcome the Government’s decision to convene an emergency housing summit this week to address the escalating homelessness crisis.
The ordination of Lindsey Farrell and David Moses as Deacons serving as interns in Clogher Diocese, took place in St. Macartan’s Cathedral, Clogher, on Sunday evening, 3rd September.
On Sunday 3rd September, Mrs Jill Hunter (from the Parishes of Mullabrack & Kilcluney, Markethill) was commissioned as a Diocesan Reader by Archbishop Richard Clarke.
Last Sunday evening, 3rd September, the Revd Richard Beadle, the Revd Simon Scott and the Revd Richard Waller were ordained as Prebyters in the Church of Ireland by the Rt Revd Ferran Glenfield, the Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh, in St Fethlimidh’s Cathedral, Kilmore.
The details of some 2,187 people – soldiers and their families – recorded in the registers of Ballincollig Garrison Chapel have been recovered using the registers of baptisms, marriages and burials between 1810 and 1922 now in the safe custody of the RCB Library.
The Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, the Right Reverend Dr Paul Colton, marked the start of the new academic year with a message of greeting sent to all schools in the Diocese, and a personal visit to take assembly at Ashton School, Cork.
An interview with Eddie Lyle, President of Open Doors UK and Ireland, who spoke at the Council for Mission’s General Synod mission breakfast.
The Church of Ireland Theological Institute’s Featherstonhaugh Seminar Series for 2017–2018 will look at ‘Ministry in a Contemporary Context’.
The Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, Rt Rev Ken Good, has ordained two new deacons for the Diocese of Derry and Raphoe.
