The inaugural conference – a residential meeting in the Charleville Park Hotel, County Cork, opened on Friday night by the Archbishop of Armagh – came to a close on Saturday afternoon with the election by the four new working groups of their chairpersons.
These chairpersons, will lead the working groups in the four principal tasks of the Charting A Future with Confidence process in Cork, Cloyne and Ross. With the Bishop of Cork, Dr Paul Colton, as President, the four chairpersons will, with him, constitute the steering committee. Those elected – two clerical and two lay – are: Mr Melvin Beamish, Mrs Sandra Giles, the Very Reverend Nigel Dunne, and the Very Reverend Christopher Peters.
The newly elected steering committee of Charting A Future with Confidence l-r Melvin Beamish, Dean Nigel Dunne, the Bishop, Sandra Giles and Dean Christopher Peters, photographed at the conclusion of the inaugural meeting on Saturday, 22nd November.
The Bishop of Cork described the meeting as very encouraging and positive. ‘It was also greatly enhanced’, he said, by contributions from people who had been involved in earlier programmes of renewal and review in the Diocese in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s: Archdeacon Robin Bantry White, Bishop Michael Mayes, Mr Wilfred Baker and Mr David Bird.
Three of the ‘retired officers’ from Cork, Cloyne and Ross who assisted with a retrospect at the Charting A Future with Confidence launch, l-r Robin Bantry White, Michael Mayes and David Bird.
Here is a gallery of other photos from this inaugural meeting of Charting A Future with Confidence:
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The newly elected steering committee of Charting A Future with Confidence l-r Melvin Beamish, Dean Nigel Dunne, the Bishop, Sandra Giles and Dean Christopher Peters, photographed at the conclusion of the inaugural meeting on Saturday, 22nd November.
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Pay Mahony (Cobh and Glanmire) and Jim Swanton (Ballydehob)
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George Ross (Fermoy) has a quick check of the rugby score
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Dean Nigel Dunne, Olive Burns and Susan Colton
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Paul Knight (Youghal), Richard Dring (Carrigalien), Daniel Nuzum (Hospital Chaplain) and Stephen Buttimer (Kinneigh)
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Arcdeacon Adrian Wilkinson and Viv Squire (hospital chaplaincy)
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Jim Swanton (Ballydehob), Ina Lillis (Mallow) John Buttimer (Ross) and Sandra Dukelow (Kilmocomogue)
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Gordon Coombes (Kilgariffe), Dean Alan Marley and Pat Mahony
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Dr Alicia St Leger (Diocesan agazine) and Alec Bryan (Templebreedy)
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John Ardis, Bruce Pierce, Denis MacCarthy and Sandra Giles
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Coffe time
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Síle Healy Hunt (Moviddy) and Linda Dean (Honorary Secretary)
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Archdeacon Robin Bantry White addresses the gathering
Mr Simon Thompson, who was Principal of Midleton College until last August, returned to the College yesterday for some formal ceremonies of farewell. Staff and students spoke at a special full assembly of the school (all staff and all students) at midday, when a presentation of an especially commissioned silver scallop shell was made to Mr Thompson. The scallop shell features in the school crest and is the symbol of pilgrimage and journey, as well as of new beginnings in baptism.
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