Anglican Communion News Service - Digest News

The Very Revd Michael Burrows, Dean of Cork, was consecrated the next Bishop of Cashel and Ossory in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin on Monday 3 July at 2.30pm.

The Archbishop of Dublin, the Most Revd Dr John Neill, speaking ahead of the consecration said, "It will be a great joy and privilege for me to ordain Michael Burrows to the Episcopate on July 3rd. From my own point of view, his election as bishop of my own former diocese brought me great pleasure, and the fact that our respective fathers served together as priests in Dublin diocese is an added personal link.

"Michael brings to his new ministry a wealth of pastoral, international and ecumenical experience, and is well known for both his clear and compelling preaching gifts as well as for his scholarship. My prayer is that he and Claire and the family will be very happy in Cashel and Ossory, as they make their home in Kilkenny."

Dean Michael Burrows said, "I look forward with both excitement and trepidation to the ministry which lies ahead of me. However the warm welcoming words from throughout Cashel and Ossory and the assurance of constant prayers have been most heartening.

"In respect of the consecration itself it will be somehow appropriate to be ordained bishop in my native city of Dublin, and in the cathedral which was a constant part of my journey of faith in younger years. I am most grateful to the Archbishop for his encouraging words and to the Dean of Christ Church who has prepared a liturgy which I am sure will make a deep impression upon us all."

The See of Cashel and Ossory became vacant after the resignation of Bishop Peter Barrett in January 2006.