26.07.2016
The Revd Abigail Sines Appointed Dean’s Vicar at Christ Church Cathedral
The Revd Abigail Sines has been appointed Dean’s Vicar at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. Abigail is currently Curate of the Christ Church Cathedral Group of Parishes. She takes up her new post on August 1 and will be installed on Sunday September 11 during Evensong in the cathedral. She succeeds the Revd Garth Bunting who was appointed Rector of Drumcondra and North Strand earlier in the summer.
Abigail was ordained a Deacon in 2014 and priested the following year for curacy in the Christ Church Cathedral Group. She hails from Hampton, Virginia, in the United States. In university she studied international relations and Chinese, with hopes of a career as a diplomat in the US Foreign Service. After graduation she spent a year in China teaching English before undertaking postgraduate studies at the University of Hawai`i, continuing her academic interest in China and eventually taking up a position at the East–West Centre, the Honolulu–based organisation that had sponsored her studies.
While there she launched a leadership development programme for young women professionals from around the region and assisted in programmes bringing together mid–career journalists from the region to talk about issues of the day.
After six years Abigail felt the call to study theology and in 2008 began studies at Belfast Bible College and completed an MTh there in 2010. She then began her studies at the Church of Ireland Theological Institute in 2012. Following her ordination to the diaconate, she served as Intern Deacon at St Paul’s, Glenageary.