Harold Miller

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Revd Andrew McCroskery, one of the signatories. Others include former head of the Theological Institute in Dublin Canon John Bartlett; Dean of Dublin Dermot Dunne; Dean of Waterford Maria Jansson. File photograph: Dave Meehan
Church of Ireland clergy object to conservative bishop’s appointment

Thirty-six senior Church of Ireland clergy have put their names to an open letter objecting to the appointment of the newly elected Bishop of Down and(...)

The chairman of Northern Ireland’s historical abuse inquiry Sir Anthony Hart has died suddenly, it has been confirmed. File Photograph: Paul Faith/PA Wire
Abuse inquiry chairman Sir Anthony Hart dies after heart attack

The chairman of Northern Ireland’s historical abuse inquiry Sir Anthony Hart has died suddenly, it has been confirmed. Sir Anthony chaired the Histor(...)

Rev Trevor Johnston, a member of the committee that set up the highly conservative Global Anglican Future Conference Ireland group. Photograph: ASCBelfast.com
Ireland ‘least Christian’ part of English-speaking world

The Republic of Ireland is the least Christian part of the English-speaking world and a place where “God is now seen as redundant and unnecessary”, a (...)

Two Church of Ireland bishops’ attendance at Gafcon has been described as “an absolute disgrace”. Photograph: iStock
Bishops’ presence at Gafcon an ‘absolute disgrace’

Attendance by two Church of Ireland bishops at the conservative Global Anglican Future Conference (Gafcon) meeting in Jerusalem last week has provoked(...)

Members of the Together for Yes Campaign call for abortion reform in Northern Ireland. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
Republic's secularisation brings Protestant and Catholic churches closer

The Republic of Ireland is apparently heading for hell and Northern Protestants have no intention of being dragged down that primrose path, according (...)

Church of Ireland notes

It is not often that the Church of Ireland has a bestseller but such was the demand for Bishop Harold Miller’s guide to the Book of Common Prayer, The(...)

Rev Peter D Murray pictured after being elelcted and installed as President of the Methodist Church in Ireland at a ceremony in Christ Church Leeson Park, Dublin tonight. Photograph: Aidan Crawley/The Irish Times
Ecumenical history made in Dublin

History was made in Dublin tonight when the two Church of Ireland archbishops took part in the installation of the new Methodist President Rev Peter (...)

Bare ruined choirs: a derelict Church of Ireland church in Co Meath. Photograph: Alan Betson
Numbers indicate the Church of Ireland could now be ‘approaching dissolution’

The Church of Ireland – An Illustrated History begins with a number of essays. Those on architecture and stained glass by Michael O’Neill and David La(...)

Archbishop of Dublin, Most Rev Michael Jackson: sectarianism ‘insufficiently explored in the Republic’. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh
‘There is a certain combat and indeed violence deeply embedded in theology’

There was a little of Lady Macbeth in the reaction of some in the Church of Ireland to Archbishop Michael Jackson’s recent observations on sectarianis(...)