The Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross has begun his episcopal ministry with a call to prayer and renewed mission amidst growing social division The Right Reverend Andrew Orr has begun his ministry as Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross with a call for the Church to build communities where people are ‘known, loved and held in prayer’, warning that a society increasingly connected digitally is becoming profoundly isolated spiritually. Preaching at his first installation and enthronement at St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork, on Sunday 4th October, the Bishop said the Church had a responsibility to respond to loneliness and fragmentation by creating communities in which people could find belonging. Drawing on the lives of the diocese’s patron, St Fin Barre, and St Francis of Assisi, he called for a Church rooted in prayer, open to those at its margins and ready to learn from the wisdom of others. He concluded with...