It was with sadness that news was received in the Diocese of the death of Canon George Salter. Bishop Colton said “Canon George Salter was one of the best known figures in the Church of Ireland in Cork and was hugely involved with life in Cork City and County for more than half a century. On behalf of us all in Cork, Cloyne and Ross I send our sympathy to Canon Salter’s family.’

George Salter was born in Castletownshend, County Cork in 1925. He was educated at Midleton College and read Irish and Spanish at Trinity College, Dublin. He was made deacon in 1949 and ordained priest in 1950. He served his first curacy in Rathdowney in the Diocese of Ossory from 1949 to 1951. Apart from those years in Ossory, the entirety of his ministry was served here in Cork, Cloyne and Ross, first as curate of Saint Luke’s and Saint Anne’s (1951-53), He was rector of Fermoy from 1953 to 1955, after which he returned to Saint Luke’s and Saint Anne’s as rector until his retirement in 1994.