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.
