Parish

Parish’s Name 

  • St Patrick’s, Walcha.

Walcha church

Churches in Parish

  • Walcha: St Patrick
  • Bendemeer: Holy Innocents
  • Glen Morrison: Sacred Heart
  • Walcha Road: St John
  • Weabonga: Our Lady of Perpetual Succour
  • Stations at Clonard, Danglemar, Moona Plains, Niangala, Nowendoc, Round Swamp, Woolbrook, Watson’s Creek, Yarrowitch.

Church’s Address 

  • 63N South Street

Parish established 

  • 1884

Priests in the Parish

Year Priest
1894 Fr Joseph Ahren Ahearne
1894-1900 Fr John Robinson
1900-1903 Fr Mathew O’Sullivan
1904-1937 Fr John O’Connor
1937-1940  Fr Patrick McDermot
1940-1945 Fr Patrick Doherty
1946-1949  Fr David Hiscox
1950-1955 Fr Joseph Lynam
1955-1967  Fr John McKeon
1967-1977 Fr George O’Connor
1977-1986 Fr Ron Perrett
1986-1990  Fr Rex Curry
1990-    Fr Kim Evans (Administrator)
1998-2002 Fr Peter Kneipp
2003- 2006 Fr Max Davis
2007-   Fr B Cunneen

Parish Associates

  • Fr Tony Castelli
  • Fr Terry Crowe
  • Sr Mary Philomena (Ryan)
  • Sr Maureen Heffernan
  • Sr Betty O’Neill
  • Sr Fidelis Hammill
  • Sr Fidelis Fernon
  • Sr Josephine Fernon
  • Sr Mary Elizabeth Clare
  • Br Claude Swenney FSC
  • Br Paul Rogers FSC

HISTORY OF PARISH

Fr Tim McCarthy built a small Chapel in Walcha before going to start a Church in Grafton in 1854.


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