10.02.2014
CITI Plans Celebrations to Mark 50th Anniversary at Braemor Park
Staff, students and those associated with the Church of Ireland Theological Institute are preparing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the institution’s move to Braemor Park on Monday February 17.
The former Divinity Hostel moved to Braemor Park in February 1964, when the new premises were blessed and opened by the Archbishops of Armagh and Dublin. In the past half century, the Divinity Hostel has grown and developed into the Church of Ireland Theological College, and since then has become the Church of Ireland Theological Institute.
On Monday afternoon, as part of the celebrations, former staff member, the Rev Dr David Hewlett, who is now the Principal of the Queen’s Foundation in Birmingham, will lead a seminar with the current student body on the subject of Theological training for Contextualised Mission.
Dr Hewlett will preach later that day at a service of Celebration and Thanksgiving in the Chapel of CITI.
The class of 1964 has been invited to a buffet meal, along with staff and students of CITI, the serving and retired bishops of the Church of Ireland, former principals and members of staff, members of the CITI Governing Council and Management Committee and Heads of Department in Church House.
Two class members from 1964 who were part of the move from Mountjoy Square to Braemor Park have been invited to speak after dinner: the Right Revd Michael Mayes, former Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe, and the Very Revd John Dinnen, former Dean of Down and Rector of Hillsborough.
The anniversary is the subject of the February 2014 RCB Library Archive of the Month which can be found at www.ireland.anglican.org/library/archive. The RCB Library has a whole range of materials that might assist people researching significant anniversaries at other institutions.