Reverend Lynch ordained into the priesthood

ON Wednesday evening, Coore-based Reverend Vicki Lynch was ordained into the priesthood in the Church of Ireland. Reverend Lynch’s ordination marked the culmination of a 13-year journey since the Cumbrian native first got the call to enter religious life.

Originally from Workington in North–West England, Reverend Lynch moved to West Clare with her husband Steve and their family in 1995. The couple have four children, the youngest of whom is 13.
Reverend Lynch was ordained to the priesthood this Wednesday evening in St Mary’s Cathedral in Limerick.
“It’s exactly the same as the Roman Catholic Church. You’re made a deacon first and then ordained a priest, in our case about a year later,” she told The Clare Champion on Wednesday afternoon.
“I work in youth ministry and community development in the Church of Ireland Diocese of Limerick and Killaloe and I’ll be continuing to do that.
“My contract is for about another two years. I will obviously be working in my own parish here also,” Reverend Lynch added.
“All the life experience that you have, obviously you bring that to your ministry. But being a mother, I think, is so like being in ministry. All the different things that you do as a mother; the loving, the caring, the empowering and the nurturing are certainly things that you need in Christian ministry,” the now Reverend Lynch told The Clare Champion last October after becoming a deacon.