About Us
Welcome To Our Parish – We are a multi cultural, diverse church family.
Carrigrohane Union of Parishes is a member of the Church of Ireland which belongs to the worldwide Anglican Communion. We are one of twenty-four parishes in the United Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne & Ross.
Our Parish has four worship places: St Peter’s in Carrigrohane, St Senan’s in Inniscarra, The Church of the Resurrection in Blarney and the recently developed Carraig Centre in Ballincollig, which serves as a place of worship and the Parish and Community Centre serving all our congregations and the wider community.
OUR TEAM
Our Staff Team
Carrigrohane Union of Parishes is staffed by a team led by our Rector Revd Robert Ferris. The Staff team serve in CUP by leading and providing admin support to all those who minister here. Core to the mission of this parish is the utilisation of everyones gifts and skills in the building up of Church community.
Also included on this page are some of the many people who make up the wider parish ministry team.
Revd Canon Robert Ferris
Rector
Revd Abigail Sines
Associate Minister
Matt Gould
Church Army Lead Evangelist Carraig Centre Community Leader
Sarah Louise Hockey
Church Army Pioneer Evangelist / Youthworker
Macdara Dawson
Youthwork Intern
Deirdre Lightbody
Parish Administrator
Jaki Godfrey
Parish Administration
Mary Gleeson
Parish Finance Officer
2024 Select Vestry
The Select Vestry is appointed annually according to the Church of Ireland Constitution-
It is chaired by the Rector – Canon Robert Ferris and is comprised of the clergy of the parish along with those elected by the Annual Easter General Vestry and appointed.
Church Wardens
The Rector appointed the following:
Laurel Watts – Rector’s Church Warden for St Peter’s
April Gunn – Rector’s Church Warden for Blarney
Mel Harris – Rector’s Church Warden for Inniscarra
The following were elected as People’s Church Wardens:
Jane Moffatt – St Peter’s
Richard Wood – Inniscarra
Paula O’Callaghan – Blarney
Glebe Wardens
The Rector appointed Robert Devoy as Rector’s Glebe Warden and Ciaran McKeown is elected as People’s Glebe Warden.
Select Vestry members
The following members were elected to the Select Vestry:
Douglas Venn, Liz Kenning, Richard Bolster, DJ Kelleher, Bill Lane, Ivan McMahon, Mick O’Shea, Janice Healey Bird (Hon. Treasurer), Jessica Kindler, Diane Martin.
What we Believe
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We are disciples of Jesus Christ, worshippers of God the Holy Trinity (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) and subscribers to the Creeds of the early Church.
In keeping with Anglican theology, our beliefs and practices derive from Scripture, reason and tradition. We are catholic in holding all the Christian faith in its fullness and being part of the one worldwide Church of God. We are Reformed in believing that the Church’s life should be aligned with Scripture and that the Church should only require its members to believe those doctrines to which Scripture bears witness.
The Church of Ireland is a member Church of the Anglican Communion, a family of independent Churches in full communion with each other and with the See of Canterbury.
We rejoice in the progress on unity made by the ecumenical movement and we seek to remove obstacles to full communion between Christians and to gain from the insight and experience of others.We provide a context in which people of diverse views on theology and liturgy can live and worship together.
We regard worship as a priority for every Christian. In particular, we see the Holy Communion (the Eucharist) as the main way in which church members celebrate their love for God and for each other and become renewed as the Body of Christ for mission and service.
The Book of Common Prayer is a source of unity within the Church and an expression of a liturgical language, traditional and modern, which over the years has captivated people by its beauty and spiritual power. We see a direct relationship between the language of common prayer and the language of doctrine: the words that church members themselves pray and own become the expression of what the Church itself believes.
We affirm the ancient three–fold ministry of bishops, priests and deacons. The ordained ministry serves the whole people of God, to facilitate and encourage its members in their worship, and to enable each of them to identify their own particular ministry as baptised Christians.