michael, Author at The Church of Ireland Diocese of Connor

Rector on the airwaves during March

Friday February 28th 2014

The Rev Elizabeth Hanna, rector of St Nicholas, Belfast, will be delivering a Thought for the Day on BBC Radio Ulster every Wednesday morning during March.

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Bishop’s Lenten courses get underway on March 4

Friday February 28th 2014

The first in the 2014 series of Lenten courses by the Bishop of Connor gets underway in Bushmills Parish Centre on Tuesday March 4. Two seminars, focusing on Discipleship and Ministry, will be delivered during March and the first week…

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New Minor Canons appointed at St Anne’s

Friday February 28th 2014

The Dean and Chapter of Saint Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, have appointed the Rev Adrian Dorrian and the Rev Nigel Kirkpatrick as minor canons. They will join the cathedral’s existing minor canon, the Rev Stephen Fielding. Minor canons have largely an…

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Ramoan Youth Fellowship sponsors schoolchildren in Tanzania

Friday February 28th 2014

Members of Ramoan Parish’s youth fellowship hosted a coffee morning which raised funds to sponsor school places for 10 children in Tanzania. The young people and their leader, Mrs Shona Bell, heard about the work carried by the charity Kids…

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Opportunity to apply for Organ Scholarships

Wednesday February 26th 2014

The Church of Ireland Dioceses of Down and Dromore and Connor Organ Scholarship Management Board is inviting applications for scholarships for the year 2014. Scholarships are tenable for three years, subject to assessment at the end of years one and…

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Musical Extravaganza at Christ Church Parish, Lisburn

Wednesday February 26th 2014

Report and photographs by John Kelly A ‘Musical Extravaganza’ held in Christ Church Parish, Lisburn, has raised more than £1,000 to extend a school built by the parish in Uganda. Lisnagarvey Operatic Society presented an evening of songs from the…

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Clergy Training Day on Empowering Ministry

Tuesday February 25th 2014

A diocesan clergy training day on the theme of ‘Empowering Ministry’ was held in Antrim Parish Halls on Tuesday February 25. Sixty five clergy attended the event, which was addressed by the Rt Rev Graham Cray, The Church of England’s…

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St Nicholas MU members welcome Kenyan visitors

Monday February 24th 2014

Members of the Mothers’ Union at St Nicholas Parish Church, Lisburn Road, Belfast, welcomed two visitors from the Diocese of Kitale in northern Kenya on February 18. Bishop Stephen Kewasis was joined by Mama Rael Kewasis, a member of the…

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Lent with St John’s Gospel launched at St Anne’s Cathedral

Friday February 21st 2014

The Most Rev Dr Richard Clarke, Archbishop of Armagh, launched a new Lent book written by the Very Rev John Mann, Dean of Belfast, at St Anne’s Cathedral on Monday February 17. The new book, published in hardback by The…

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Spring issue of Connor Connections now available

Friday February 21st 2014

The spring edition of the diocesan magazine Connor Connections is now available free from clergy in all parishes in the diocese. In this issue we introduce our new Children’s Project Development Officer Jill Hamilton, who outlines what she has been…

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