Diocese of Down & Dromore

Latest HUG project

HUG, (Holywood Underground), is an established group of young folk from Holywood Parish who are passionate about showing God's love to their local community.  For example in the le...

Rwandan Experience

A team of ten church people from Northern Ireland travelled to Rwanda in July to share personal stories of conflict and trauma with forty pastors, bishops, Mothers' Union workers,...

On Being Black

Sangeetha Sathyaraj penned this poem and she has given permission for us to share it with visitors to the website:

Death of Ecumenical Pioneer

Bishops' Appeal on Middle East crisis

Following the House of Bishops statement on the Middle East situation, the Bishops' Appeal has issued the following:

House of Bishops statement on situation in Middle East

The Church of Ireland House of Bishops issued the following statement today:

Charles notches up 50 years

The Rev Charles Combe was ordained in the ministry on 22 July 1956.  Charles is now retired and he and his wife, June, live in Bangor where they are members of St Comgall's.  A rec...

Bishop celebrates half a century

Bishop Edward Darling, the former Bishop of Limerick, who retired into the diocese of Down and Dromore, has recently notched up 50 years in the Ordained Ministry.  To mark the occa...