The Right Revd Andrew Orr was formally installed and enthroned as Bishop of Cloyne on Wednesday, 14 October 2026, during a Service of Choral Evensong at Saint Colman’s Cathedral, Cloyne.

The service started at 7.30p.m. with a procession of two choirs, Diocesan Lay Readers, Diocesan and Visiting Clergy, Ecumenical Guests and the Cathedral Chapter. Also in attendance were parishioners from the Cathedral and parishes throughout Cork, Cloyne and Ross, together with representatives of civic and church life, including Fr Brendan Mallon and Fr Patrick Linehan, and Councillors Cathal Rasmussen and Peter O’Donoghue.

The ceremony of enthronement began with the Cathedral Chapter, clergy, and students of Midleton College processing to the West Door of the Cathedral, where Bishop Andrew knocked three times and asked to be admitted. The students welcomed Bishop Andrew, and after the reading of the mandate by the Diocesan Registrar, John C Jermyn, the Prebendary of Brigown, the Revd Canon Daniel Nuzum, admitted Bishop Andrew to the Cathedral.

The music for Evensong was sung by the Clerks Choral and Midleton College Choir under the direction of Dr Ian Sexton and included Sir Alfred Herbert Brewer’s Evening Service in D and the anthem O Thou Sweetest Source by Charles Wood. The organist for the service was Colin Nichols.

Following Evensong, Bishop Andrew preached on the history of Cloyne and the importance of reconciliation in Christian faith and ministry. Drawing on the Cross of Cloyne, which combines Irish and Viking artistic traditions, and an ancient cross discovered near Ballycotton featuring an Arabic inscription, he explored how different cultures and faith traditions can meet and enrich one another. He emphasised that Christian faith calls us not only to remain firm in our own beliefs but also to recognise and honour what is good in others. Returning to Christ’s death on the cross as the ultimate act of reconciliation, Bishop Andrew reminded the congregation that all Christian ministry, whether episcopal, ordained or lay, is rooted in the calling to bring reconciliation between God and humanity and among people themselves. The full sermon can be read here.

The formal enthronement followed. Bishop Andrew was led to the episcopal throne by the Prebendary of Brigown, the Revd Canon Daniel Nuzum, and the Prebendary of Donoghmore, the Revd Canon Denis MacCarthy. Having made the required declarations with his hand upon the Gospel, Bishop Andrew was taken by the hand by Canon Nuzum and led to the cathedra where he was formally installed and enthroned in the Bishopric of Cloyne.

After the service, Bishop Andrew consecrated the new Altar in the Longfield Chapel, and the parishioners of Cloyne Union hosted everyone for tea and refreshments.

Bishop Andrew was consecrated Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, on 30 September by the Archbishop of Dublin, the Most Revd Dr Michael Jackson. His enthronements in Cork and Cloyne were the first two of three such services in the United Dioceses. He will be enthroned as Bishop of Ross in St Fachtna’s Cathedral, Rosscarbery, on Sunday, 18 October at 3.30 p.m.