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There are three choirs: the Cathedral Choir, the Down & Connor Schola Cantorum (Boys’ Choir) and the Cathedral Girls’ Choir. The decision to designate St Peter's as the diocesan cathedral was taken by Bishop Cahal Daly who celebrated the Mass on 29 June 1986 at which the building was formally designated as the cathedral church of Down and ...
St Fergus (died 583) is named as first Bishop of Down. The Diocese of Connor was founded in 480 by St Macnissi, and St Malachy was bishop there (1124). The dioceses of Down and Connor were permanently joined in 1439. In 1670, as an effect of the Reformation, wars, and penal laws, in the whole of Down and Connor there were only 2,500 Catholic ...
In 1868, the Bishop of Down and Connor, Dr Patrick Dorrian, invited a group of Passionists, a Catholic clerical religious congregation, to establish a church and parish in Ardoyne. Fr Raphael, Fr Alphonsus and Brother Luke initially built a small church which opened in 1869 followed by a retreat house and monastery in 1881. [3]
Over the centuries, numerous dioceses were merged, in view of declining membership. Until 1944, the dioceses of Down and Dromore were part of the United Dioceses of Down, Connor and Dromore. In 1944, the Diocese of Connor gained a separate existence under its own bishop. It is for this reason that the united diocese has three cathedrals.
The Diocese of Down and Connor can refer to: The Roman Catholic Diocese of Down and Connor;
McGuckian was born on 26 February 1953 in Cloughmills, County Antrim, the youngest of six children to Brian McGuckian and his wife Pauline (née McKenna). [1] His father was a successful pig farmer who, alongside his brothers, developed the world's biggest pig farm.
In 1944, therefore Connor Diocese was split off from the other two. St. Anne's Cathedral, Belfast built in 1905 to serve as a single cathedral for the Diocese, theoretically running alongside, but in practice replacing the existing cathedrals in Lisburn, Downpatrick and Dromore, saw two bishops of two distinct dioceses have stalls in the ...
On 1 January 1945, they were separated into the bishopric of Connor and the bishopric of Down & Dromore. The current Incumbent is the Right Reverend David McClay , Bishop of Down and Dromore, who was elected by the Church of Ireland House of Bishops on 4 November 2019 [ 2 ] and consecrated at St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast on 25 January 2020. [ 3 ]