CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 18th November 2000
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Church of Ireland Historical Society Meets in Dublin
Today (Saturday) the Church of Ireland Historical Society will
meet in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, where there will be three
speakers.
In the morning the Bishop of Meath and Kildare, Dr Richard Clarke,
will speak on Richard Whately, who was Archbishop of Dublin from 1831 to
1863. Whately, whose portrait dominates the Chapter Room in Christ
Church Cathedral, was a man of many parts. He founded a chair of
political economy in Trinity College, attempted to establish a separate
Theological College, and had to cope the consequences of the Church
Temporalities Act of 1833 which, among other things, united the dioceses
of Dublin and Kildare.
The relations between Dublin and Kildare may also impinge on the
contribution of the second speaker, the Revd Adrian Wilkinson, Rector of
Dunboyne, who will talk about St Brigid's Cathedral, Kildare. Mr
Wilkinson is part of a collaborative project, masterminded by Dr Raymond
Gillespie of NUI-Maynooth, to produce a series of essays on Kildare
Cathedral which, when brought together, will, in effect, be a history of
the Cathedral.
Another publishing project is the kernel of the final talk which will
be a presentation by Mr Ronnie Wallace on his work of revising Canon
J.B. Leslie's unpublished biographical succession lists of the clergy of
Dublin and Glendalough. This project is under the auspices of the united
dioceses which are committed to the publication of the revised lists in
a format similar to earlier volumes on Connor, Down and Dromore, and
Derry and Raphoe.
Today (Saturday) in Dublin there will be a memorial service
for the motor-cyclist Joey Dunlop in St Patrick's Cathedral while in St
Bartholomew's Church the AGM of Affirming Catholicism will be followed
by a talk by Canon Adrian Empey, Vicar of St Ann's, on "The Social
Witness of the Church Today". In Cork, the Centre for Christian
Studies in St Fin Barre's Cathedral will celebrate 25 years of constant
witness. The Very Revd Maurice Carey, founder of the Centre, will preach
at a celebration of the Eucharist and the Revd Professor Enda McDonagh
will speak after lunch on "Directions in Irish Theology
Today".
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will broadcast Morning Service from the
Chaplaincy of the Queens' University, Belfast, where the chaplain is the
Revd Andrew Forster. In the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, the
preacher at the Sung Eucharist will be the Revd Ian Davis, from All
Saints Church, Margaret Street, which is one of the leading centres for
Anglo-Catholic liturgical expression in the Diocese of London.
The Bishop of Yambio in the Sudan, the Rt Revd Peter Munde Yacoub, is
visiting the Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough as a guest of CMS
Ireland. Tomorrow (Sunday) he will be in Kill o' the Grange
parish where there will be a Famine Lunch after morning service.
In the afternoon the Annual Huguenot Commemoration will be held in St
Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, where the address will be given by the Revd
Dr Thomas O'Connor, Lecturer in Modern History in NUI-Maynooth.
On Tuesday the AGM of the Church of Ireland Primary School
Chairpersons' Association will be held in the Church of Ireland College
of Education at 2.30 pm. The Standing Committee of the General Synod and
the Executive Committee of the Representative Church Body will meet on
Tuesday in Dublin where the bishops will meet on Wednesday.
On Wednesday the Friends of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, will
have an evening of "Music and Musings" in the crypt with civic
and cathedral personalities and members of the Cathedral Choir. Details
may be had by telephoning 01-4976680.
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