History of Our Parish

Parish Clergy and Pastoral Support

Biographical sketches of our earlier clergy can be read in the historical booklet 1955-2005. 

Parish Priests

Father Edward Ward	1954 - 1958
Father Leo Walsh	1958- 1963
Father Tom Maudslay	1963 - 1969
Father Patrick Kelly	1969 - 1977
Father Anthony Wilkinson	1977 - 1984
Father Michael Ryan	1984 - 1999
Father Patrick Smith	1999 - 2013
Father John Lumley	2013 - 2014
Father Kevin Melody, O.Carm.	2015- 2017
Father Antony Lester	2017 -

Assistant Priests and other clerical support

Father Dermot O'Connor	1956 -1958
Father Philip Kelly	1958 - 1963
​Father John Murphy	1963 - 1970
​Father Kevin Thornton	1970 - 1976
​Father Tony Wilson	1976 - 1979
​Father John Berry	1980 - 1982
​Father Gerry Dasey	1982 - 1985
​Father Jerry Twomey	1985 - 1989
Father Eamon Kellegher	1989 - 1990
​Father Terry Dougherty	1990
​Father Bill East	1994 - 2000
Father Gerard Walsh, O.Carm.	2015 - 2017

Deacons

Reverend Peter Warren

2014 -

Lay Pastoral Ministers

Sr. Patricia Harriss, IBVM
Mrs. Angela Clarke
Dr. Johan Bergström-Allen	2024 -