The new dean of Armagh, the Very Rev Patrick Rooke, will be installed at a service in St Patrick's cathedral, Armagh, on Thursday when the preacher will be the Bishop of Connor, the Right Rev Alan Harper.
Dean Rooke, who was appointed by the Archbishop of Armagh in February, succeeds the Very Rev Herbert Cassidy, who was dean of Armagh from 1989 until his retirement.
With the deanery goes the keepership of the library, founded by archbishop Richard Robinson in 1771. The new dean was rector of Ballymore from 1988 to 1994, while from 1992 until 1994 he was assistant provincial and diocesan registrar and an honorary vicar choral at Armagh cathedral.
He served two curacies the Diocese of Connor and has been rector of two parishes, most recently Agherton, Portstewart from 1994. He has been a member of the chapter of St Saviour, Connor, since 2001 and was appointed archdeacon of Dalriada in 2005.
Today at the Theological College, the journal Search will host a colloquium on Islamic- Christian relations in Ireland today, the results of which will be published in the periodical.
Speakers include Sheikh Yahya Al Hussein from the Islamic Centre, Dr Elaine Wright of the Chester Beatty Library and the Rev Alan Race.
Tomorrow the services at St Patrick's cathedral, Dublin will be sung by European cathedral singers. In the chapel of Trinity College Dublin, the "picture sermon" at the sung Eucharist will be given by art historian Dr Ian McAleer, who will speak on Titian's Noli me Tangere.
As part of the Tipperary Peace Convention, there will be an ecumenical service at St Mary's church during which the winning song in the 2006 Tipperary International Song of Peace competition will be sung.
On Monday, the Archbishop of Armagh will institute the Rev Ruth Murray to the incumbency of Woodchapel. In Kilkenny the inaugural McAdoo lecture will be delivered in the chapter room of St Canices's Cathedral by the Bishop of Guildford, the Right Rev Christopher Hill.
On Wednesday, the Archbishop of Dublin will visit Kilkenny College to open a dormitory extension. The Bishop of Cork will visit Ashton school and Bandon grammar school.
A call for papers has been issued for a conference to take place in Maynooth in September. Papers are invited on the history of women's religious life from the medieval and early modern period through to the recent past in Ireland or Britain, or dealing with women from Ireland or Britain working overseas.
For details contact Dr Yvonne McKenna, University of Limerick, at yvonne.mckenna@ul.ie