Dean Rooke guest preacher in Ballymena

Monday June 1st 2009

Dean Patrick Rooke and Chancellor Stuart Lloyd. The Very Reverend Patrick Rooke, Dean of Armagh, was the guest preacher at this year's annual Ballymena Civic Service.

Dean Rooke, the Mayor of Ballymena, Alderman Maurice Mills and Mrs Anne Donaghy, Chief Executive of Ballymena Borough Council read the lessons while pupils from the various grammar and secondary schools in the Borough read the prayers.

Many organisations from within the Borough were represented in the large congregation. Chancellor Stuart Lloyd, rector of St Patrick’s Parish Church, Ballymena, is pictured welcoming Dean Rooke to St Patrick's for the service.