The Church of Ireland Gazette

The Church of Ireland Gazette
Type weekly religion-orientated newspaper
Format Compact
Owner(s) Church of Ireland Press Ltd.
Editor Revd Earl Storey
Founded 1856
Political alignment Anglican
Headquarters Lisburn, Co. Antrim.
Website gazette.ireland.anglican.org/

The Church of Ireland Gazette is a weekly newspaper promoting the Christian faith, covers the activities of the Church of Ireland across all its dioceses in Ireland (North and South). Although associated with the Church of Ireland(Anglican) the Gazettes editorial is formally Independent. Published in Lisburn, Co. Antrim, the paper distributes about 5,000 copies weekly. The Gazette is published every friday.

Established and first published in March 1856 by the Church of Ireland, as a monthly journal under the title, The Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette (The Church of England's paper was called The Ecclesiastical Gazette), the Gazette became weekly in 1880. Its name was changed to The Church of Ireland Gazette in 1900.[1] The Gazette was published from 61 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin, (where James Charles & Sons Printers, were based, until 1897 when a new company was formed Church of Ireland Printing and Publishing Ltd. ) up until the 1960's, while it survived the rising in 1916 it was unable to publish that week, and had a joint week the week after.[2] Irish Church Directory / The Church of Ireland Directory was also published from the middle abbey street office from 1862 until 1966 when it moved to Mark Street, in Dublin.[3]

Editors

Revd. Canon Ian Ellis served as editor from 2001 to May 2017.[4] Previous editors of the paper included Canon Cecil Cooper (1982-2001),[5] Bishop William Gilbert Wilson (1963-1966) and Rev. Houston McKelvey(1975-1982). The longest serving Irish Times Editor John Edward Healy served as editor of the Gazette for a time as did Warre Bradley Wells (1906-1918) who served as editor during the 1916 Rising when the Gazette was based in Middle Abbey Street, Dublin, also wrote the weekly column entitled The War Week by Week during the First World War.

Rev'd Earl Storey became the new editor from 1 June 2017.[6] He already runs a communications consultancy business Topstorey Communications[7] and is married to the Most Rev'd Pat Storey, Bishop of Meath & Kildare.[8]

Archive

A full archive of back copies is held at the Church of Ireland's Library at Braemor Park, Dublin. Its website is hosted on the Irish Anglican website, and much of the archive is available online.[9] On the April 2nd, 2017 it was announced further funding to digitise all issues from 1856 managed by the Representative Church Body Library.[10]

References

  1. ↑ About Us The Church of Ireland Gazette
  2. ↑ Reporting the Rising: A Church of Ireland Perspective Through the Lens of a Special Edition of the Church of Ireland Gazette www.irishchurches.org
  3. ↑ earliest Irish Church Directory 1862 www.ireland.anglican.org
  4. ↑ Same-sex issues dominated my time as editor but Church Gazette has always been a place for all points of view Belfast Newsletter, November 26, 2016.
  5. ↑ Gazette Editor Retires Patsy McGarry, The Irish Times, 27 January 2001.
  6. ↑ Church of Ireland website.
  7. ↑ http://www.topstorey.org/
  8. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocese_of_Meath_and_Kildare
  9. ↑ Church of Ireland Gazette (1915) digitised Church of Ireland Historical Society, May 11, 2015.
  10. ↑ Church of Ireland to Digitise its Gazette from 1856 Irish Genealogy News, Sunday April 2nd, 2017.
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