Bishop Pat News Today

To mark the 30th anniversary of “CityNews”, social historian and journalist NICHOLE OVERALL has written an eclectic history of Canberra and beyond over the past three decades. Here is 2012.

For the first time in its history the Church of Ireland’s General Synod (annual conference) will take place in Co Wexford as it comes to Clayton Whites Hotel from Friday, May 12 to Saturday, May 13. This will be the third meeting of the 52nd General Synod, it first met in 1871 in Dublin following the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland (COI), and in recent years General Synod has met in several different towns and cities around the island of Ireland.

In a first for Aotearoa New Zealand, Ngā Whaea Atawhai o Aotearoa Sisters of Mercy New Zealand has launched Whānau Mercy Ministries, which is a “Ministerial Public Juridic Person (MPJP) of Pontifical Right” that will own and oversee incorporated ministries established by the sisters in this country over more than 150 years.