A DUBLIN Inter-Religious Council was set up yesterday at a meeting in
Archbishop’s House, Drumcondra, which was attended by representatives
of the Christian denominations and other faiths in the city.
The
two-hour meeting agreed that the council chairman for the coming year
should be the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin. Prof
Brendan Leahy, of St Patrick’s College Maynooth, is to be chairman of
its executive committee, with Aksobhin Tracy and John Keeling, both of
the Buddhist community in Ireland, honorary secretary and honorary
treasurer respectively.
The meeting was called by Dublin’s two
archbishops, Church of Ireland Archbishop John Neill and Archbishop
Martin.
Among the attendance were Dr Hemant Kumar, of Ireland’s Hindu
Council; Alison Wortley of the Baha’i community; Rabbi Zalman Lent and
Hilary Abrahamson of the Jewish community; the Rev Dr John Stephens,
Methodist; the Rev Godfrey O’Donnell of the Romanian Orthodox Church;
and Imam Yayha Al Hussein, representing the Muslim community.
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