CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 5 September 1998
Porvoo Meeting in Dublin
Next week the Church of Ireland, and the Diocese of
Dublin in particular, will host the 1998 meeting of the Contact Group
which co-ordinates the on-going work and fellowship of the Porvoo
Communion. From Thursday until the following Monday the Group will be
based in the Church of Ireland Theological College where it will review
the progress of the Porvoo Agreement and the efforts of the churches to
strengthen their fellowship since the signing of the agreement in 1996.
The Group will also visit Glendalough and will be
entertained by the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey. The Bishop of
Porvoo, the cathedral city in Finland which gives its name to the
agreement, has been invited to preach in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
on 13 September at the ordination of the Revd Lynda Peilow, curate of
Castleknock.
The Porvoo Agreement is an agreement between, on the
one hand, the Anglican churches of Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales,
and the Lutheran churches in the Nordic and Baltic countries. It
establishes communion between these churches. This means that the
members regard baptised members of each other's churches as members of
their own, welcome overseas congregations into the life of the receiving
churches, welcome the ministry of those who are ordained in the member
churches, and consult on significant matters of faith and order, life
and work.
The Bishop of Cashel and Ossory, the Rt Revd John
Neill, is Anglican Co-Chairman of the Porvoo Communion and Canon Paul
Colton, Rector of Castleknock, is a member of the Contact Group.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Robin
Eames, will be in Tullaniskin, Co. Tyrone, to dedicate a renewed church
tower. In Dublin the Revd Rupert Moreton, the newly appointed Anglican
chaplain in Helsinki, will celebrate and preach at the Sung Eucharist in
St John's Church, Sandymount while at Evensong in St Patrick's Cathedral
Canon Ian Gallagher, Rector of Drumcliffe, will be installed as
Prebendary of Mulhuddart.
Tomorrow (Sunday) evening in Lisburn Cathedral Jane
Robinson and Allison Patterson, both school leavers from Friends School,
will be commissioned to work for CMS Ireland in a centre for deaf
children in the Diocese of North Africa. At the same service Canon John
McCammon, until recently Rector of the Lisburn Cathedral parish, and his
wfe Margaret, will be commissioned for their impending work in
theological education with the Diocese of Kajiado in Kenya. They will
first undergo a period of training at the CMS Training College at
Crowther Hall, Birmingham.
On Monday the clergy of the Diocese of Bangor, North
Wales, begin a summer school in Dublin which will last until Thursday.
They will be based in the Church of Ireland College of Education in
Rathmines where their theme will be "Contemporary Perspectives on
Church and Society". In a fascinating programme Dr Andrew Pierce
will speak on the theological perspective, Canon Kenneth Kearon will
address the moral issues and Dr Kenneth Milne will discuss the Church in
Europe. Bruce Arnold will speak on the protestant ethic in journalism,
Fr Michael Rogers on Celtic spirituality and Dr Terence McCaughey on
hope while Anne Thurston will share with the Welsh visitors her
perspective of the feminist experience of the church.
On Thursday the Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe, the
Rt Revd Edward Darling, will preside and preach at an anniversary
Eucharist in St Mary's Church, Askeaton, Co Limerick.
On Friday the Bishop of Derry, Dr James Mehaffey,
will institute the Revd Donard Collins, Rector of Ardmore in the Diocese
of Dromore, to the incumbency of Killowen.
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