Alan Abernethy

The Right Reverend
Alan Abernethy
Bishop of Connor
Assumed office
2007
Personal details
Born 12 April 1957
Nationality Irish
Spouse(s) Liz née Forster
Alma mater Grosvenor High School, Belfast; Queen's University Belfast; Trinity College, Dublin

Alan Francis Abernethy [1] is the current Bishop of Connor.[2]

Born on 12 April 1957,[3] educated at Grosvenor High School, Belfast, Queen's University Belfast and Trinity College, Dublin, and ordained in 1981,[4] he began his career as Assistant Curate at St Elizabeth’s, Dundonald.[5] After a similar post at Lecale he was Officiating Chaplain at RAF Bishopscourt.[6] He was Rector at St John’s, Helen's Bay, from 1987 to 1990[7] and then at St Columbanus, Ballyholme,[8] until his elevation to the Episcopate in 2007. In 2010 he faced calls that he resign in connection with the controversy relating to the coming to an end of the composer Philip Stopford's tenure as Director of Music at St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast.[9][10][11]

Notes

  1. ↑ Diocesan web site Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ Anglican Communion
  3. ↑ Who's Who2008: London, A & C Black ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
  4. ↑ Crockfords, (London, Church House 1995) ISBN 0-7151-8088-6
  5. ↑ Church web site
  6. ↑ "Base history". Archived from the original on 2013-10-17. Retrieved 2011-06-07.
  7. ↑ flickr
  8. ↑ Church history
  9. ↑ https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-11009270
  10. ↑ https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/i-loved-being-at-the-westminster-abbey-of-northern-ireland-but-its-sad-the-way-my-time-there-ended-31512219.html
  11. ↑ https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-12267525
Church of Ireland titles
Preceded by
Alan Harper		 Bishop of Connor
2007 –		 Succeeded by



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