14 CITI students conferred with MTh degrees in TCD

With the graduating students and other staff members of CITI on the chapel steps in Trinity College Dublin after the Autumn Commencements and the conferring of 14 MTh degrees (Photograph: Martin O’Kelly)

Patrick Comerford

It was a joyful day in Trinity College Dublin yesterday [5 November 2015], when I was with 14 tudents from the Church of Ireland Theological Institute as they were conferred with their MTh (Master in Theology) degrees at the Autumn Commencements.

At the formal ceremony on Thursday afternoon in Examination Hall (Public Theatre), the Pro-Chancellor of the University of Dublin, Professor Edward McParland, conferred the degrees on the 14 graduate students.

The 14 students to receive their degrees are: the Revd Julie Bell, the Revd Philip Benson, the Revd David Bowles, the Revd Alan Breen, the Revd Olivia Downey, the Revd Catherine Hallissey, the Revd Trevor Holmes, the Revd Samuel Johnston, the Revd Cameron Jones, the Revd David Martin, the Revd Ruth O’Kelly, the Revd Robert Robinson, the Revd Catherine Simpson, the Revd Abigail Sines.

The conferring ceremony was followed by a reception in the Dining Hall attended by the graduates, CITI academic staff, other staff members in TCD, family members and friends.

With the the Revd Trevor Holmes on the chapel steps in Trinity College Dublin after the Autumn Commencements and the conferring of 14 MTh degrees (Photograph: Martin O’Kelly)