Category Archives: Remembrance

Bishop Colton returns Dean Gordon’s Bible Commentaries to Rosscarbery Cathedral

In recent months, following a Diocesan Service in the Cathedral Church of Saint Fachtna, Rosscarbery, County Cork, the Bishop, Dr Paul Colton, presented the Dean, the Very Reverend Cliff Jeffers, with an old and well-used set of bible commentaries, written … Continue reading

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Rector of Cobh & Glanmire Union attends commemoration of HMS Mars tragedy

On Sunday 24th April, the Rector of Cobh & Glanmire Union of Parishes, the Rev. Canon Paul Arbuthnot, represented the Church of Ireland at a Service of Remembrance for those who died in the HMS Mars tragedy.  On 14th April, … Continue reading

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736 Candles lit in St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork

As part of this public Day of Remembrance and Recognition, young people from all across the diocese lit 736 candles in St Fin Barre’s Cathedral at 11am this morning, one for each day of the pandemic to date in Ireland, … Continue reading

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Day of Remembrance and Recognition in Cork, Cloyne and Ross

Following the Government announcement that 18th March 2022 would be a public holiday, described by An Tánaiste as a ‘day of remembrance and recognition’, the clergy of Cork, Cloyne and Ross agreed to open churches across the Diocese to make symbolical, liturgical … Continue reading

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79th Anniversary of the Cork Harbour Tragedy

On 11th December, the Rector of Cobh and Glanmire Union of Parishes, the Rev. Canon Paul Arbuthnot, led the act of worship at the 79th anniversary of the Cork Harbour Tragedy. On the 12th December 1942, five men from the Marine … Continue reading

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