Parish

Parish’s Name

  • St Nicholas’, Tamworth

Church’s in Parish

  • Tamworth: St Nicholas’ (1853)
  • North Tamworth: St Mary’s

Church’s Address

  • Marius Street, Tamworth

Parish Established

  • 1864

Priests in Parish

Year Priest Year Priest
1853 Fr Timothy McCarthy 1873 W P Kerwick
1874 Dennis English 1875 Martin Murray & Patrick D Ryan
1876 Andrew J McCarthy 1877 G Bourke
1880 Tomas Darcy, J F Hearne & John A Ryan 1881 Thomas McCormack & J Murphy
1886 Patick Lynch, J H Doyle, Right Rev Dr Byrne, James T Clancy & G Bourke 1887 Benedict Marz McCabe
1888 R D Clark, F B Kavanagh, F C Borg & CVG Van der Heyden 1890 Hilary Maran, Marianus Bambini, Francis Hagarty, Michael Hackett, John F Cleary & John J English
1897 M Gurrin 1898 James O’Neill
1899 Thomas Francis Harrington 1902 John K Collender, Monsignor O’Connor & G M O’Farrell
1905 Daniel Keane & P Burtell 1907 L J O’Reilly
1911 T A O’Brien 1913 Reginald Lummer & James Murray
1914 P F Walsh 1919 Thomas Stephenson
1923 S O’Brien & Maurice Tully 1924 D Griffen & D H Hiscox
1927 J Healy 1928 Patrick McDermott & Patrick J Dunne
1929 D Carrol 1931 Jas G Marron
1932 Js Madigan 1937 E Rohan & M Flynn
1938 L Cosgrove 1939 W Freen
1940 Laurence M Mahoney, D Forde & J Y Moran 1941 L P Keenan & Machay Stephens
1942 Jas A Conroy, J Comerford, J R Dowd & Winn Corr 1943 T P Geary
1945 James A Conroy, P J Dunne & Robert Watson 1946 A Price
1947 Leslie Bagot, John B McKeon & M Foley 1949 J M O’Connor, D Keily O’C?, Michael K Cussen, J J Lyons, Francis L Sexton & A J Cummins
1950 T Cruise, A Regan, E G Ludgate & John B McDonell 1951 S J Campbell, C A Fisher, Fr Whiting & Fr Crowe
1952 J Healy 1953 G O’Connor, E Fahey & P Walsh
1954 J J Kelly, A Dwyer, F Clune & D H Hiscox 1955 A Heaney
1955/56 John M O’Connor & T H Shanahan 1957 E Meehan & Francis J Kelley
1958 M Fitzgerald, Bede F Ryan & C Harry Leis 1959 Morris J Clarke & R McKervey
1960 B P Shanahan 1962 R J Buckhorn, Tom Shanahan & J B Flood
1963 R Perrett 1964 Anthony Castelli
1966 Thomas Crowley 1967 Edmund Kenny &  Michael Mullane
1968 C A Fisher 1969 Paul McCabe
1972 Gerard Hanna, R O’Brien & Bernie Hennessy 1973 Peter Lyons
1974/75 G Hanna, P Lyons, J Carey, M Mullane, R Perrett & John O’Connor 1977/78 John Willis & Rex Curry
1980 John Willis, John Carey & Richard Gleeson 1981 Joshn Willis
1982/83 John Carey, John Willis, Richard Gleeson & Peter Kneipp 1983/84 G Hanna, John Willis, Edward Wilkes, Peter Kneipp & Rex Curry
1985 John Farrell 1989/90 G Hanna, E Wilkes & R Stephens
1998-2001 P Dwyer 1998 Fr R Gleeson PP & T Shanahan

Parish Associates

 

History of Parish

Fr Timothy McCarthy was the first Parish Priest of New England and the North Coast. Arriving in Armidale during 1853, he worked for nine years in these districts. In 1859 he built the first St Nicholas’ Church in Tamworth.


No further information has been provided at this stage.

Please forward any information to the Catholic Schools Office (Attention: History Website) or post to PO Box 636, ARMIDALE NSW 2350.

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