Retirement of the Archbishop of Armagh
Tomorrow (Sunday) evening, following the Candlemas Service in St Patrick’s cathedral, Armagh, the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Richard Clarke, will retire from the stipendiary ministry.
Ordained in 1975 for the curacy of Holywood in the Diocese of Down, Richard Clarke returned to Dublin for a second curacy in St Bartholomew’s which was followed by a period as Dean of Residence in Trinity College where he had been an undergraduate. In 1984 he was appointed Rector of the Bandon union of parishes, one of the largest parishes in the Republic of Ireland, and in…
