The Church Of Ireland
Press Release

On Sunday 3 September at 8.00 pm there will be a Celebration of the Eucharist in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, at which the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey, will preside. The celebrant will be Canon Ginnie Kennerley, Rector of Narraghmore and Timolin, and the preacher will be the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Robin Eames. All, women and men, lay and ordained, are welcome to attend this service which will be followed by a reception in the newly restored cathedral crypt.

On the following Monday and Tuesday (4 and 5 September) there will be a Conference in the Church of Ireland Theological College for all women who are ordained and for those women who are in training for ordination. The key note address will be given by the theologian, Mrs Anne Thurston. Other contributors will include Canon Kenneth Kearon, Director of the Irish School of Ecumenics, the Revd Katherine Meyer, Presbyterian Chaplain in Trinity College, and Sr Una Agnew, Lecturer in Spirituality in Miltown Park.

Further information may be had from the Revd Anne Taylor and the Revd Susan Green.

There are some 500 stipendiary clergy in the Church of Ireland. Of these fifty-eight are women, thirty-three of whom are stipendiary clergy and twenty-five of whom are auxiliaries. Another fourteen women are in training for the stipendiary ministry and a further thirteen for the auxiliary ministry. Only two cathedral chapters, Christ Church, Dublin, and St Anne, Belfast, have woman canons.