A stunning image of the sun, moon and the stars reflecting in a stained glass church panel will adorn a new series of stamps unveiled by An Post today to mark the 150th anniversary of the Disestablishment of the Church of Ireland. He said: "Disestablishment has enabled the Church of Ireland to be free to shape its own future. Today's Church of Ireland wants to invest the energy of that freedom in the life of today's Irish society. “When the Irish Church Act 1869 dissolved the union between the Church of Ireland and the State, an early strategist of the disestablished church said that the Church of Ireland was ‘free to shape her future course, independent of State control’ and focus on its own personal and spiritual mission. “Disestablishment would see the Church of Ireland becoming an entity in its own right from 1871, tied to neither the Church of England nor the State.

Source: Irish Independent January 07, 2021 08:05 UTC