CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 7th December 2002
From: The RCB Library
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New Appointments in Belfast Cathedral
The Dean of Belfast, the Very Revd Dr Houston McKelvey, has announced
three new appointments to the staff of St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast,
involving the positions of Dean's Vicar, Director of Music and
Administrative Assistant to the Dean.
The new Dean's Vicar is to be the Revd Timothy Close who is presently
a curate in the diocese of Dublin. He is a graduate of the universities
of Belfast, Leicester and Dublin and trained in the Church of
Ireland Theological College from 1997 to 2000. Mr Close was ordained
for the curacy of Glenageary where he assists the Archdeacon of
Dublin, the Ven. Gordon Linney. He succeeds the Revd Raymond Fox,
who is now Rector of Donegal, and will be introduced to the cathedral
congregation on 27 January.
In the same month Mr Philip Stopford will take up the office
of Director of Music. A former chorister of Westminster Abbey
and organ scholar of Keble College, Oxford, and Truro and Canterbury
cathedrals, he is currently responsible for the boys', girls'and
voluntary choirs of Chester Cathedral. Among his duties in St
Anne's will be developing the choir's links with schools, choral
societies and the diocesan boys'choir in nearby St Peter's Cathedral.
The new Administrative Assistant to the Dean, Ms Jenny Crowe,
has already begun work in St Anne's where her duties will include
the development of tourism, income generation and the expansion
of the arts and culture programme of the cathedral.
Today (Saturday) the Bishop Elect of Cashel and Ossory, the Very
Revd Peter Barrett, will conduct a Quiet Morning in St Matthias'Church,
Ballybrack, Co. Dublin, beginning at 10.00 am. There will be a
Christmas Bazaar in the parish of Taney while the parish of Delgany
will hold a Christmas Market.
Tomorrow (Sunday) at Evensong in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin,
the Revd Cecil Bryan, Rector of Tullow, will be installed as the
twelfth canon, in consequence of the appointment of Canon Kenneth
Kearon as Canon Chancellor. At the same service the Archbishop
of Dublin will present certificates to those who have successfully
completed the Archbishop's Certificate Course in Church Music.
In St Mary's Church, Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny, at 8.00 pm, there
will be a Musical Evening with the Cashel Cathedral Choir and
the Dean of Cashel, Dr Philip Knowles, at the organ.
A further feast of music will be offered on Monday and Tuesday
nights in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, where the Cathedral
Choir and Christ Church Baroque, directed by Mark Duley, will
sing Handel's Messiah.
On Wednesday in Church of Ireland House, Dublin, the final meeting
of the year of the Representative Church Body will be held.
A new life of the eminent Victorian musician, Sir Charles Villiers
Stanford, who received his early musical education under Sir Robert
Prescott Stewart in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, will be launched
in the cathedral crypt on Thursday evening. The author, Professor
Jeremy Dibble, from Durham University, is a former Lecturer in
Music in University College, Cork, and has also written a biography
of Stanford's great contemporary, Sir Hubert Parry. The book launch
will be preceded, at 6.00 pm, by Evensong when Stanford's Evening
Canticles for the Queen's College, Cambridge, edited by Professor
Dibble, will be sung.
On Friday evening in St George's Church, Belfast, the Choir
and Orchestra of St George's, with Ulster Brass, will give a
concert
of christmas music, including works by Handel, Vivaldi and Corelli,
while in the Church of St John the Baptist, Clontarf, Dublin,
at 8.00 pm, the Seafield Singers will present A Festival of Christmas
Music.
Church of Ireland Notes appear in the
Irish Times whose web site may be found at
http://www.ireland.com/
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