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The current Bishop of Connor is George Davison, who was elected on 17 February 2020 and consecrated a bishop on 3 September 2020. The previous bishop, Alan Francis Abernethy, retired on 31 December 2019. He was consecrated on Friday 29 June 2007 by the Archbishop of Armagh.
The Diocese of Connor, Territory of Dalriada, was established in the Synod of Rathbreasail in 1111. The diocese itself was erected in 480. [ 1 ] Tradition holds that St. Patrick herded sheep on Slemish , in the heart of the Diocese, when first brought to Ireland as a slave.
On 17 February 2020, Davison was elected as the next Bishop of Connor. [7] He was consecrated a bishop on 3 September 2020 at St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh , during a service conducted under Covid-19 restrictions: the congregation numbered less than thirty. [ 8 ]
Alan Francis Abernethy [1] (born 12 April 1957) [2] is an Irish Anglican bishop, and former Bishop of Connor. [3]Educated at Grosvenor High School, Belfast, Queen's University Belfast and Trinity College Dublin, and ordained in 1981, [4] he began his ministry as Assistant Curate at St Elizabeth's, Dundonald.
The Bishop of Connor is an episcopal title which takes its name after the village of Connor in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The title is currently used by the Church of Ireland , but in the Roman Catholic Church it has been united with another bishopric.
Henry Cotton, The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae, Vol. 3, The Province of Ulster, Dublin, Hodges and Smith 1849, pp. 195–203, 245-250; James O'Laverty, The bishops of Down & Connor, An Historical Account of the Diocese of Down and Connor, Ancient and Modern, vol. V, Dublin 1895
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On 6 April 1983, aged 42, Farquhar was appointed Titular Bishop of Hermiana and, with Patrick Walsh, as Auxiliary Bishop of Down & Connor.The principal consecrator was the Bishop of Down and Connor, Cahal Daly, (later Cardinal Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Armagh) and principal co-consecrators were Archbishop Gaetano Alibrandi, the Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland and William J. Philbin (Bishop ...