CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 2nd March 2002
From: The RCB Library
Email: RCB Library
Consecration of Bishop of Clogher
On Wednesday afternoon in St Patrick's Cathedral,
Armagh, the new Bishop of Clogher, Dr Michael Jackson will be
consecrated at a service at which the Archbishop of Wales, Dr Rowen
Williams will preach.
Dr Jackson is a son of the diocese where his father,
the late Archdeacon Roy Jackson, served in Derrybrusk, Ballinamallard
and Lisnaskea, and was educated at Portora Royal School in Enniskillen.
A distinguished undergrate career in Trinity College, Dublin, was
followed by postgraduate studies in Cambridge, and after a short course
in the Church of Ireland Theological College he was ordained in 1986 for
the curacy of Zion, Dublin
He returned to England in 1989 as Chaplain to Christ
Church College, Oxford, where he undertook further postgraduate research
but returned to Ireland in 1997 as Dean of Cork. Since then he has been
particularly active in promoting St Fin Barre's Cathedral in the life of
the city and diocese and in formulating an ambitious development plan
for the cathedral. More recently he has been appointed to the General
Synod's Literature Committee and is to be chairman of the new Church and
Society Committee which will replace the Role of the Church Committee.
Dr Jackson succeeds the Rt Revd Brian Hannon who has
retired.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning the Bishop of Cork will
preside at the Eucharist in St Fin Barre's Cathedral where the preacher
will a former Bishop of Cork, Dr Samuel Poyntz, while in the Chapel of
Trinity College, Dublin, Ann Loades, Professor of Divinity in Durham
University, will preach on the theme of "Avarice". At Evensong
in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, the Lenten address on the subject of
"Suffering" will be given by the Rt Revd Christopher Dillon
OSB, Abbot of Glenstal.
In Moate parish church there will be a combined
service for the Athlone union of parishes after which there will be a
presentation to mark the 60th anniversary of the ordination of the
Venerable Guy Cave, Archdeacon Cave was ordained in 1942 for the curacy
of Knockbreda and in 1945 was appointed to Kildrumferton, Co. Cavan,
where he remained until his retirement in 1987. Along the way he was a
canon of St Patrick's Cathedral Dublin from 1965 to 1972 and thereafter
Archdeacon of Kilmore.
At 8.00 pm tomorrow (Sunday) the Choir of
Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, will give a concert in St Mary's
Church, Blessington to raise funds for the choir's forthcoming tour to
the USA.
The lunchtime lectures series, "Tuesdays in
Spring", which has been organized jointly by Christ Church
Cathedral and Dublin City Council continueds this week in City Hall at
1.25 pm when Dr Sean Duffy, TCD, will speak on on "The Medieval
Dublin City Seal".
On Tuesday evening in St Mary's Church, Leixlip, the
seventh volume in the RCB Library's series of parish register
publications will be launched by Dr Raymond Gillespie who is Director of
the very successful MA in Local History programme in NUI-Maynooth. The
Leixlip parish register, for the years 1665-1778, has been edited by
Ms Suzanne Pegley, a Leixlip parishioner, and is available from the RCB
Library at 7.50 euros. A series of Lenten talks begins in Monkstown
parish church, Dublin, on the theme "Who is Jesus Christ for us
Today?". The first speaker will be the Revd Patrick Semple author
of the recently published memoir Believe
it or Not.
The Archbishop of Dublin has returned from a twelve
day tour of Honduras and El Salvador with Mrs Margaret Boden, General
Secretary of Christian Aid, Ireland and a film crew from TV3. During the
tour Dr Empey visited Christian Aid partners supported by the Bishops'
Appeal.
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