Anglican Communion News Service - Digest News

The Right Revd Ken Clarke, Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh, has been appointed as the new full-time Mission Director of SAMS Ireland (South American Mission Society). He will take up the post later this year and continue as bishop of his diocese until the Autumn. Bishop Ken Clarke is in his twelfth year as Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh, having been elected as bishop on the 13th November 2000.

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THE Church of Ireland has approved an official liturgy for services this year to mark the centenary of the Ulster Covenant.

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The Archbishops and Bishops of the Church of Ireland will host a conference on the subject of ‘Human Sexuality in the context of Christian Belief’ at the Slieve Russell Hotel, Ballyconnell, Co Cavan on Friday the 9th and Saturday 10th March 2012, beginning at 4.00pm on Friday and concluding at 5.00pm on Saturday.

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Statement from The Most Reverend Dr Michael Jackson, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and Chair, Church of Ireland General Synod Board of Education (RI).

The Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin, the Most Revd Dr Michael Jackson, is encouraging all fee-charging schools under Church of Ireland management to participate in and cooperate with a Department of Education initiative to find out how they spend their fee income.

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The Most Rev Dr Mouneer Anis, President Bishop of Jerusalem and the Middle East and Bishop of the Diocese of Egypt, will be in Northern Ireland next week on a short visit hosted by the Church Mission Society, Ireland.

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The Church of Ireland Theological Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Peter Hamill as Director of Continuing Ministerial Education and Lay Training.  The post will take effect from 1^st January 2012 and is initially for a period of four years.

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The Archbishop’s wide-ranging address speaks to issues of the relationship between individual and institution, and about the creation of a constructive society – ‘one which sets at the heart of its agenda the wellbeing and the flourishing of its members’ – and active participation in it.

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The Ordination and Consecration of The Revd F. John McDowell as a Bishop in the Church of God appointed to serve in the Diocese of Clogher by the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, The Most Revd Alan Harper, OBE, assisted by other bishops, will take place at St Macartin’s Cathedral, Enniskillen, on Friday 23rd September 2011 at 7.00pm.

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The Diocesan Bishops of the Anglican Celtic Churches (Scotland, Ireland and Wales) together with their Primates will meet in Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland from Monday 26th to Thursday 29th September. The bishops of the celtic churches meet together every two years and each of the three provinces takes it in turns to host the meeting.

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STATEMENT TO THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE CHURCH OF IRELAND BY THE ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH

The fact that the Very Reverend Thomas Gordon, Dean of Leighlin, entered a Civil Partnership on 29th July last has created a new situation for the Church of Ireland. In many parts of the Church, the matter is seen as controversial. In such a situation it is important that great care be taken in anything that may be said.

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From the Church of Ireland Press Office

A special service of Thanksgiving and Dedication will be held in St Columb’s Cathedral, Londonderry on Sunday 11 September at 7.30 pm. Following on from the major celebrations on June 9 to mark the complete restoration of the historic building, the service on Sunday evening will focus on the life of the Cathedral in terms of its music and choral tradition.

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From the Irish Independent

THE Anglican rector who discovered US President Barack Obama's Irish ancestral records has received a thank you letter from the White House.

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Tribute to the Revd Dr John Stott from the Archbishop of Armagh and the Archbishop of Dublin

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In an urgent response to the persistent drought in East Africa, the Church of Ireland Bishops’ Appeal has announced that it is releasing €20,000 to fund the work of Christian Aid and their local partners who are responding to the crisis on the ground in Kenya and Ethiopia. It also appeals for contributions from parishes and individuals throughout Ireland to help with the disaster relief efforts.

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The Church of Ireland Bishops’ Appeal – the Church’s world aid and development programme – is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Education Officer, Ms Lydia Monds, who will take up her new role in July.

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The House of Bishops of the Church of Ireland meeting today in Dublin appointed the Revd John McDowell, Rector of St Mark’s Dundela in the Diocese of Down and Dromore as the new Bishop of Clogher, to succeed the Most Revd Dr Michael Jackson, who was recently enthroned as the new Archbishop of Dublin. The appointment of the new bishop had passed to the House of Bishops as the Episcopal Electoral College which met on 4 May failed to make an appointment.

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From the Diocese of Derry, Church of Ireland

A new book entitled The Extra Mile has being launched at the General Synod in Armagh this week. It is designed to help churches find new and imaginative ways to serve practical needs in their local community.

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Speaking at the 88th Annual Meeting of the Irish Council of Churches in the Island Civic Centre, Lisburn, Co. Antrim, Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole, told representatives from 14 different churches that, "secularism is not an anti-religion idea".

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Japan Earthquake & Tsunami Service, St Patrick’s National Cathedral, Dublin, 11 April 2011, 7 p.m.

The Japanese Community in Dublin in association with Dublin City Council and St. Patrick’s Cathedral will hold an event to commemorate the victims of the Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami and to provide an opportunity for people to show Ireland’s solidarity with Japan.

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Murder of PSNI Officer in Omagh

Statement by The Most Revd Alan Harper, Archbishop of Armagh, and the Rt Revd Ken Good, Bishop of Derry and Raphoe

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