Commissioning of Diocesan Readers March 2025
Bishop David commissioned eight new Diocesan Readers at a service on 27 March in St Columbanus, Ballyholme. The church was packed! Congratulations to Margaret Holland (Donaghcloney Parish), Paddy Marshall (Willowfield), Thomas Proctor (Ballywalter Parish), Joy Ruddell (St John's Moira), Josh Thornbury (Seagoe Parish), Michelle Savage and Mark Wells (Ballyholme Parish) and James Simpson (Bangor Primacy). We're grateful to our preacher, the rector of Donaghcloney and Waringstown, Revd Mark Lennox. Canon Simon Doogan led the service and Bishop David was assisted by the Warden of Readers and Rector of Banbridge Church of Ireland, Revd Willie Nixon.
