Diocesan News
Appointment to Mount Merrion
Congratulations to the Revd Lucy Burden who has been appointed Bishop’s Curate for Mount Merrion Parish in Down Diocese.
Congratulations to the Revd Lucy Burden who has been appointed Bishop’s Curate for Mount Merrion Parish in Down Diocese.
This year and for the first time, seventeen choristers of St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork, joined a five–day summer camp during the first week of August.
The Cork Diocesan Youth Council met again on Friday 30th July, with a group of teenagers from all over the diocese, to go kayaking at Lough Hyne.
Many congratulations to Bertha Christie, a parishioner of St Patrick’s, Jordanstown, Diocese of Connor, who celebrated her 100th birthday on Saturday August 7.
David Holmes, a parish reader in Kilbride Parish, Diocese of Connor, is planning L’Étape du Deanery – a sponsored cycle in aid of Northern Ireland Chest, Heart and Stroke.
The gym in the Sports Complex at Bandon Grammar School, County Cork, is undergoing a makeover this summer in readiness for the return of its eager students.
Parishioners from Calry Parish are doing a sponsored walk along the Miners Way in support of their CMSI link Diocese, Kindu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
As part of the Cork Pride Festival 2021, a service of Remembrance and Thanksgiving was held in St Anne’s, Shandon on Thursday 29th July.
Congratulations to the Revd Myrtle Morrison who has been appointed Incumbent of the Parish of Newcastle in Dromore Diocese.
Earlier last month, the team at the Kilbroney Centre gave a joyful welcome to its first residential group since the pandemic began. From 13–15 July, 11 family bubbles stayed for the Kilbroney Summer Family Break.