Latest News from the Church of Ireland Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross

Skibbereen Rowing Club names boat after Founding Member and Abbeystrewry Parishioner Richard Hosford

Posted on August 19, 2024 by mediaccr

Back in May, Abbeystrewry Parishioner Richard Hosford was guest of honour at the Skibbereen Rowing Club for a boat naming ceremony. The boat, an Eight, which is a racing shell used for competitive rowing and designed for eight rowers, was named after Richard in recognition of his long and outstanding service to the club. Richard is one of the founding members of the Skibbereen Rowing Club.

Richard’s involvement and dedication to the club is a wonderful example of how members from across our Diocese, and the whole Church of Ireland, are weighing in with community life, leading to extraordinary achievements. Most recently of course, this includes the two current members and one former member of the club competing at the Olympic Games in Paris.

On 2nd August 2024, Skibbereen rowers Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy won the gold medal in the men’s lightweight double sculls for Ireland, successfully defending their title from the previous Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020. In addition, Aoife Casey, who started rowing in Skibbereen, together with Mags Cremin, who started rowing at the Shandon Rowing Club, won the fifth place in the Lightweight Women’s Double Sculls. Both rowers are representatives of the University College Cork Rowing Club.

Many other members of the club compete on national and international level, frequently bringing home medals to Skibbereen. The Olympic Homecoming will be celebrate at the club on 1st September 2024. For more information, you can visit their Facebook page.

Photos: Skibbereen Rowing Club Facebook Page

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Annual Elizabeth Bowen Commemoration in St Colman’s Church Farahy

Posted on August 8, 2024 by mediaccr

The Annual Elizabeth Bowen Commemoration will take place on Sunday, 8th September, in St Colman’s Church Farahy at 3.30pm. The service will be Choral Evensong, sung by the Clerks Choral, accompanied at the harmonium by Dr Ian Sexton. The service will be taken by the Rev’d R.B. MacCarthy, former Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin. The speaker will be the Rt Rev’d Kenneth Kearon, former Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe.

St Coleman’s Church, Farahy, is closed for regular worship and only opens for the annual commemoration service in memory of Elizabeth Bowen, the celebrated Anglo-Irish author whose home, Bowenscourt, once stood in the adjoining estate. Every year, a distinguished speaker delivers an interesting lecture about her life or writing. Farahy a mile or so west of Kildorrery on the Mallow Road.

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Upcoming: St Mary’s Collegiate Church, Youghal and its place in Irish architectural history

Posted on August 7, 2024 by mediaccr

This talk will consider the architecture of St Mary’s Church in the medieval context and its elevation to a secular collegiate church. It will also consider internal changes in the post-Reformation period through to the present day in the context of Church of Ireland architectural developments over these centuries. It will draw on a variety of sources including the collection of architectural drawings held in the Representative Church Body Library, Vestry Minute Books, Visitation material and other visual records.

The talk will take place on Thursday, 22nd August 2024 at 7.30pm at St Mary’s Collegiate Church, Youghal.

Michael O’Neill is an architectural historian and digital archivist. His latest book is An Architectural History of the Church of Ireland (Church of Ireland Publishing, 2023, 392pp)

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Ordination of a new Deacon in Cork, Cloyne and Ross

Posted on July 29, 2024 by mediaccr

On Thursday, 25th July 2024, Eoghan Healy was ordained to the Diaconate by Bishop Paul Colton at St John the Baptist Church, Midleton. Eoghan was originally meant to be ordained together with the Rev. Andrew Coleman on Sunday 30th June 2024 at St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, but due to unforeseen circumstances, Eoghan’s ordination had to be postponed, and he was ordained in his local parish church. This was the first time that an ordination took place at St John the Baptist Church in Midleton.

The newly ordained deacon, the Rev. Eoghan Healy, and the Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, the Right Rev. Dr Paul Colton.

After the ordination service, from l.-r.: the Rev. Martin Steele, the Very Rev. Susan Green, the Rev. Eoghan Healy, Bishop Paul Colton, the Ven. Andrew Orr, the Rev. Meghan Farr, the Rev. Andrew Coleman.

Eoghan was presented for ordination by the Archdeacon, the Ven. Andrew Orr, as well as his sponsors. Parishioners, family and friends from all over the Diocese, as well as Diocesan Readers and clergy came to East Cork to support Eoghan on this special day. The Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, the Right Rev. Dr Paul Colton presided at the liturgy and preached, and the Clerks Choral sang at the service, with Dr Ian Sexton accompanying them on the organ.

After the service everyone was invited for refreshments in the Old School House.

The two deacons ordained in Cork, Cloyne and Ross in 2024: the Rev. Eoghan Healy and the Rev. Andrew Coleman.

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St James’s Church, Mallow celebrates 200 Years

Posted on July 25, 2024 by mediaccr

On Sunday, 21st July 2024, Mallow Union of Parishes celebrated the Bicentenary of the Consecration of St James’s Church with a Festival Eucharist. the Bishop, Dr Paul Colton preached and presided at the service, and St James’s Church was full with parishioners, community representatives, clergy and readers from across the Diocese.

The Rector of Mallow Union, the Rev. Meurig Williams, said:

It’s a delight to give thanks for 200 years of worship and witness in St James’s Church Mallow. But equally we give thanks for the diverse and growing community that makes the church a living place of prayer, welcome and hospitality today. For all that, thanks be to God!

After the service, Bishop Paul planted a tree in the church grounds, the 23rd tree out of 25 trees he is planting across the Diocese to mark his 25th anniversary as Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross. The procession to the planting site was led by three pipers from Mallow’s Thomas Davis Pipe Band which is celebrating the centenary of its foundation this year..

Afterwards everyone was invited to enjoy light refreshments in the parish hall. The Bishop cut a cake to celebrate the bicentenary and presentations were made to him and to Mrs Susan Colton.