Priests Past & Present
St. Hilda’s Parish Priest | Assistant Priest |
Jean Francois Richenet 1794-1799 Jean Pierre Gabriel Goudouin 1799-1803 Nicholas Alain Gilbert 1803-1815 George Leo Haydock 1815-1830 Robert Tate 1830 William Parker 1830-1834 Richard M Browne 1834-1836 John Conaty 1840-1841 Charles Pratt 1841-1843 Joseph Curr 1843-1846 McMahon James 1846-1848 George Keasley 1848-1860 John Glover 1860-1874 Henry Walker 1874-1881 Joseph Xavier Molloy 1881-1885 | F Murphy 1881-1882 John O’Donnell 1882-1885 |
William S Sullivan 1885-1886 | Timothy Reidy 1885-1886 |
Benjamin Randerson 1886-1897 | Michael Ahern 1886-1892 |
Thomas Shinkwin 1888-1889 | |
John Brown 1892-1893 | |
Augustine D’Hooghe 1893-1900 | |
James J Nolan 1897-1900 | |
Bernard J McCabe 1900-1936 | Sidney Calvert 1900-1907 |
John E Moore 1907-1908 | |
Stephen Hines 1907-1912 | |
William J Finn 1908-1909 | |
Matthew O’Connell 1912-1917 | |
David J O’Connor 1917-1920 | |
Bernard Wilson 1920-1923 | |
Lawrence Doherty 1923-1927 | |
Thomas C Clifford 1927-1928 | |
Eugene O’Reilly 1928-1934 | |
Augustine C Pippet 1934-1938 | |
Thomas A Wright 1936-1957 | P Nix 1938-1939 |
David P Quinlan 1939-1940 | |
James D Murphy 1940-1941 | |
Joseph Bickerstaffe 1941-1951 | |
Francis Hyland 1951-1953 | |
Peter L Storey 1953-1959 | |
Patrick Moynagh 1954-1961 | |
Patrick A Lannen 1957-1978 | Michael Lambe 1959-1968 |
John Shanahan 1961-1962 | |
Michael Boyd 1962-1963 | |
Peter J Keeling 1963-1968 | |
James J Gilligan 1966-1967 | |
Colman MP Ryan 1967-1976 | |
Joseph A Brennan 1968-1969 | |
Cuthbert Kestell-Cornish 1968-1969 | |
Clement Pattison 1969-1974 | |
Laurence Madden 1974-1979 | |
Garvan A O’Hara 1978-2000 | John Wood 1978-1983 |
Francis Doherty 1984-1985 | |
Michael Loughlin 1985-1986 | |
John Loughlin 1992-1993, 1999 | |
John Loughlin 2000 – 2005 | |
Neil McNicholas 2005 – 2012 | |
Patrick F Keogh 2012 – 2024 | |
ST. PATRICK’S | |
Joseph McDonagh 1975-1980 | |
Bernard R Lovelady 1980-1989 | |
Anthony Bickerstaffe 1989-1994 | |
Patrick O’Neill 1994-1997 | |
Peter Mulholland 1997-2002 | Parish amalgamated with St. Hilda’s |
ENGLISH MARTYRS | |
James Gannon 1950-1958 | |
John Bury 1958-1960 | |
Patrick J O’Rourke 1961-1982 | |
James Brennan 1982-1999 | Parish amalgamated with St. Hilda’s |