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.