CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 22nd June 2002
From: The RCB Library
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Ordinations to the Diaconate
Tomorrow (Sunday) most of this year's batch of
deacons will be ordained. In St Mark's Church, Newtownards, the Bishop
of Down and Dromore will ordain Isaac Delamere, Kevin Graham and James
Harris for the curacies of Newtownards, Knock and Ballybeen respectively
while David Richardson and Neal Phair will be ordained by the Bishop of
Connor to serve in Coleraine and Ballymena.
In St Fethlimidh's Cathedral the Bishop of Kilmore
will ordain Tanya Woods and George Browne who will serve in Killesher
and Kildallon while in Christ Church Cathedral, the Archbishop of Dublin
will ordain Sandra Hales for the curacy of Leixlip and Lucan and Robert
Marshall who will serve as an auxiliary deacon in Stillorgan. Lesley
Roberts will be ordained by the Bishop of Limerick to serve in Clonfert
and in St Fin Barre's Cathedral the Bishop of Cork will ordain Stella
Mikhail and Joy Ferguson for Bandon and Moviddy unions of parishes
respectively.
On Monday the Bishop of Meath and Kildare will ordain
Jean Wynne who will work as an auxiliary deacon in Mullingar. The new
Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, the Rt Revd Ken Good, will conduct his first
ordination when he will ordain to the priesthood the Revd Ivan Dinsmore
and the Revd Irene Lyttle.
Today (Saturday) the Bishop of Cashel and
Ossory will preside at the AGM of the Friends of St Canice's Cathedral
while in St Peter's Church, Belfast, there will be a recital by Peter
Barley, Organist of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin and the Methodist
College Madrigal Society.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning in Christ Church
Cathedral, Dublin, the Annual St John's Ambulance Service will be held.
In the evening the Friends of St Patrick's Cathedral annual festival
service will be held at which the preacher will be the Bishop of
Clogher, Dr Michael Jackson. After Evensong the Cathedral's assistant
organist, David Leigh, will give a performance of Vierne's Symphony
No. 6 and the Friends a garden party in the Deanery.
On Monday, the Feast of St John the Baptist, Evensong
in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, will be sung by the choirs of Christ
Church and St Patrick's. In Belfast Cathedral there will be a special
service of Divine Healing at which the speakers will be the Revd Niall
Griffin and his wife, Gerry, directors of SOMA (Sharing of Ministries
Abroad) in Ireland.
On Tuesday the Archbishop of Armagh, together with
other church leaders, will visit Youth Link, Northern Ireland, while in
Dublin the Bishop of Cork will chair the Bishops' Selection Conference.
At 8.00 pm the Providence Chancel Choir will give a concert in Cashel
Cathedral in aid of the Bolton Library and on Wednesday at 7.00 pm the
silver jubilee of the ordination of the Dean of Cashel, Dr Philip
Knowles, will be marked at Evensong in the cathedral where the preacher
will be the former Bishop of Cashel and Ossory, the Rt Revd Noel
Willoughby.
On Friday the Archbishop of Dublin will institute
Canon Tom Haskins to the incumbency of St Ann and St Stephen in
succession to Dr Adrian Empey who is now Principal of the Church of
Ireland Theological College. Canon Haskins has been Rector of Clontarf
since 1990. In Cork Canon Michael Burrows will be installed as Dean of
Cork in St Fin Barre's Cathedral in succession to Dr Michael Jackson who
is now Bishop of Clogher. Canon Burrows, a former Dean of Residence in
Trinity College, Dublin, has been Rector of the Bandon union of parishes
since 1994 and Prebendary of Kilbrittain and Holy Trinity in St Fin
Barre's since 1996.
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