Future role of lay people in the diocese of Cork and Ross to be discussed at workshops

 Bishop of Cork and Ross, Fintan Gavin has invited Julianne Stanz, the director of evangelisation and discipleship for the diocese of Green Bay in Wisconsin, to discuss  how that large diocese has reorganised. Picture: Denis Minihane.

The future role of lay people in the diocese of Cork and Ross will be discussed at a series of workshops led by a US expert this weekend.

Some 600 people drawn from the 68 parishes in the diocese will attend two meetings to hear from Irish-born US-based author and retreat leader Julianne Stanz, the director of evangelisation and discipleship for the diocese of Green Bay in Wisconsin, about how that large diocese reorganised, with more lay involvement, against the backdrop of falling vocations.