Archbishop Alan Harper today said:"I welcome the announcement by the UDA that the UFF is to stand down and that weaponry will be put beyond use. I believe that this is an important step in the process of the normalisation of society in loyalist areas.
12 November 2007
Preaching on the Church of Ireland’s ‘Hard Gospel Sunday' (9th September) in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, the editor of The Church of Ireland Gazette, Canon Ian Ellis, will say that there must be a renewed determination in the international community to protect religious freedom around the world.
11 September 2007
Teenagers from Ballyholme parish in Bangor, Co Down, gave up a week of their holidays to run a programme of activities for children in Ballysillan, north Belfast.
02 August 2007
It was announced today that the Church of Ireland Bishops Appeal has approved an emergency grant of 20,000 Euro for relief work in Darfur.
25 June 2007
House of Bishops meetings are normally held in Dublin, but in response to an invitation from the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, the Right Revd Ken Good, their three day meeting will take place in Derry on this occasion, where in the course of a busy schedule they will meet the Mayor, Councillor Helen Quigley, senior clergy including Bishop Hegarty and Bishop Boyce, and many of the local MLAs.
30 May 2007
Annually the Church of Ireland and Roman Catholic bishops of Clogher host an open air service which is cross-community. They do so in the conviction that Pentecost marks the birth of the Christian Church as well as heralding the divine gift of the Holy Spirit to the world.
30 May 2007
Former Archbishop of Armagh and Church of Ireland Primate of All-Ireland, The Rt Revd Dr Robin Eames, received Tipperary International Peace Award this afternoon in Tipperary Town saying that he did so in the names of parochial clergy of the Church of Ireland and the clergy of all the denominations on the island.
01 May 2007
USPG is both the oldest and the newest mission agency in the Church of Ireland, having been here for 300 years and yet having been re-formed as USPG Ireland.
25 April 2007
The House of Bishops of the Church of Ireland, meeting today in Dublin, appointed the Reverend Canon Alan Abernethy as the new Bishop of Connor to succeed the Most Reverend Alan Harper, who was elected Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland in January 2007.
18 April 2007
The Easter message of the triumph of life over death and hope over despair is reinforced for all of us in Ireland this year. We may not have put behind us all of the legacy of a troubled past, but so much has happened that promises new beginnings and a future liberated from the chains of the past, that we are surely right to celebrate with additional joy and conviction.
03 April 2007