CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 8th June 2002
From: The RCB Library
Email: RCB Library
Consecration of Bishop of Derry
On Tuesday, the Feast of St Barnabas, in St Patrick's
Cathedral, Armagh, the Ven. Kenneth Good, who was elected in March as
Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, will be consecrated. The Archbishop of
Armagh will conduct the service and the preacher will be the Rt Revd
Derek Eaton, Bishop of Nelson in New Zealand.
Archdeacon Good, like a number of recent episcopal
appointees, has strong associations with Cork, where his father was a
rector and a canon of Cloyne Cathedral, and where he received his
secondary education. Third level education followed in Trinity College,
Dublin, and Nottingham University.
He was ordained in 1977 for the curacy of Willowfield
in Belfast and in 1979 returned to Cork as Chaplain and Head of
Religious Education in Ashton School during which time he undertook
further studies in education. in 1984 he was appointed rector of the
rural parish of Dunganstown in Co. Wicklow and since 1990 has been
rector of of the busy parish of Shankill which is centred on the Church
of Christ the Redeemer in Lurgan, Co. Armagh. While in Shankill he has
widened his administrative experience having been appointed a rural dean
in 1992 and Archdeacon of Dromore in 1997.
Archdeacon Good succeeds Dr James Mehaffey who has
retired from the stipendiary ministry.
Today (Saturday) in Donoughmore parish church,
Co. Wicklow, the Archbishop of Dublin will institute the Revd Declan
Smith to the incumbency of Donoughmore and Donard with Dunlavin. In the
Palace in Cork the Bishop of Cork will preside at an Inter Faith Forum
which will be faciliatated by Canon Michael Ipgrave, Secretary of the
Churches' Commission for Inter-Faith Relations of Churches Together in
Britain and Ireland.
Tomorrow RTE will televise a celebration of the
Eucharist with the Revd Ian Gallagher and the congregation of the parish
of Stillorgan, Co. Dublin, while on RTE radio there will be a service of
Sung Matins according to the Book of Common Prayer at which the
preacher will be the Revd Sandra Pragnell, Curate of Castleknock. In St
Brigid's Cathedral, Kildare the Bishop of Meath and Kildare will ordain
to the priesthood the Revd Robert Heaney, curate of Dunboyne, and the
Revd Hazel Scully, who serves in the auxiliary ministry in Portarlington,
while in St Mary's Cathedral, Limerick, the Revd Alan Mitchett, curate
of the Limerick city parishes, will be priested by the Bishop of
Limerick. In Aherla the Bishop of Cork will institute the Ven. Robin
Bantry White, Archdeacon of Cork, to the Moviddy union of parishes.
On Tuesday the Bishop of Cashel and Ossory will chair
a meeting of the Church of Ireland ARCIC Committee which will be
attended by Dr Mary Tanner, former Moderator of the Faith and Order
Commission of the World Council of Churches. The Keele University
Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir will give a lunchtime concert in Christ
Church Cathedral, Dublin, and an evening recital in St Patrick's Church
Greystones. In St Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork, Colm Carey, organist of
the Chapel Royal in the Tower of London and an established international
recitalist, will give a recital in memory of his father, the Very Revd
Maurice Carey, who was Dean of Cork from 1971 to 1993.
The penultimate recital in the Willis Organ Centenary
series in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, will be given on Wednesday
evening by Siobhan Kilkelly, organist of Monkstown parish church.
On Thursday the Keele University
Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir will give an evening concert at 8.00
p.m. in St. Peter's, Drogheda in aid of the Restoration Appeal and on
Friday in St. Patrick's Church of Ireland Cathedral in Armagh.
An interactive art installation entitled "Lumen
ad Revelationem" by Julanne Clarke-Morrism will be in place in
Christ Church Cathedral until 14 June. This installation creates a
temporary chapel of projected images in a small section of the crypt.
Church of Ireland Notes appear in the Irish
Times whose web site may be found at
http://www.ireland.com/ |
