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Updated: 04/02/21, 12:10 pm
Bishop Riglin enjoys cinema and contemporary dance, is a passionate fan of the music of the late Beatles member George Harrison, and has been a life-long fan of Doctor Who.
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Scottish Episcopal Church selects new bishop for Argyll and The Isles
Rev Canon Dr Keith Riglin has been elected a bishop (Scottish Episcopal Church/PA)
The Scottish Episcopal Church has selected a new bishop for the Diocese of Argyll and The Isles in an online first.
Rev Canon Dr Keith Riglin was selected by the Electoral Synod from a shortlist of three candidates.
He will succeed Rt Rev Kevin Pearson, who became Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway last year.
In a historic first online episcopal election, the Diocese of Argyll & The Isles has chosen a new Bishop, the Rev Canon Dr Keith Riglin. Canon Riglin, Vice Dean and Chaplain at King’s College London, said he is delighted, deeply touched, and humbled . https://t.co/8f9ynYJknO
Patriarchy Theocracy and Tragedy: the Dark Shadow of Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes
Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes Commission Report: a mirror held up to the power of dominance, socialised diffidence and our own need to ‘de-link’ and connect.
On the 5 February 1984, people across Ireland – and throughout that worldly ‘other’ Ireland – the diaspora of millions living in London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Cardiff, New York, and right across the mapped circuit of the globe – read of the death of 15 year old Ann Lovett, and of her not-even-moments born, baby son, in Granard, County Longford, under the shade of a grotto shrine, like so many in Ireland, dedicated to Mary, both mother of God, and virgin; known to many Irish, in a kind of intimate-distancing, as ‘Our Lady’. I recall my own 15-year-old self, reading the story in the pages of the
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