Cathedral News

Bishop Brendan Kelly has been appointed by Pope Francis as Bishop of Galway & Kilmacduagh and Apostolic Administrator of Kilfenora. He will be installed in the Cathedral on Sunday 11 February 2018.

Christmas is one of the most joyful seasons of the church year, and is celebrated in the Cathedral with appropriate solemnity. Here are details of the various events taking place at this time. Here also are details of confessions in the days before Christmas.

Music for Galway, Irish Baroque Orchestra and Resurgam Choir present a performance of G. F. Handel's ever-popular oratorio Messiah in the Cathedral on Saturday 9 December at 7:30pm.

The Three Tenors - Dominic McGorian, Shane Morgan and Derek Moloney - present a concert of popular classical music in the Cathedral on Thursday 21 December at 8:00pm. The choir of Scoil Íde will also appear on the night.

Local Galway group The A Capella Knights will present two Christmas concerts entitled The Knights before Christmas, in aid of Galway Simon Community, in the Cathedral on Saturday 2 December: a children’s concert at 3:00pm and an evening concert at 7:45pm.

This seventh-century Welsh saint is remembered on 3 November.

St Alphonsus Rodriguez was a Spanish Jesuit. He lived from 1532 until 1617.

The inaugural Galway Camino pilgrim walk to seven holy sites around Galway city will take place on Saturday 23 September 2017 from 12 noon and takes in Galway Cathedral, the Poor Clare convent in Nuns' Island, St Nicholas' Collegiate Church, the Franciscan Abbey, the Augustinian Church, the Dominican Church in the Claddagh and St Joseph’s Church.

"Breath upon the Flame" - a candlelit concert of traditional music re-imagined for voice, brass, strings and percussion, featuring Eimear Quinn and Dublin Brass Ensemble.

St Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179), abbess, musician, visionary and writer.