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The Rev Clifford Skillen has retired from his position as the Bishop of Connor’s Senior Domestic Chaplain. He had served in that capacity throughout the entire 12 years of Bishop Alan Abernethy’s episcopacy, having been appointed by Bishop…

Church of Ireland Bishop of Connor, the Rt Rev Alan Abernethy is to retire on health grounds. Bishop Alan announced recently, that following medical advice, he had taken this decision with ‘a very heavy heart and spirit.’ Breaking the…

The Bishop of Connor, the Rt Rev Alan Abernethy, launched his latest book, The Jewel in the Mess, at the Spectrum Centre in north Belfast on Tuesday 7th May 2019. Guest speakers were the Rev Dr Heather Morris, General Secretary, Home…

Mr Jim Patterson, a parishioner of St Mark’s, Ballysillan, Diocese of Connor, said he was ‘very humbled’ to receive a Maundy purse from Her Majesty the Queen in Windsor last month. Jim was nominated for the Royal Maundy Thursday gift by…