List of parishes in the Diocese of Salford
This list compiles the entirety of the parishes within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford, located in the north of England. Currently, the Rt Revd Terence Brain, the Bishop of Salford leads the diocese.
The list of parishes are each divided by their local authority.
Parish |
Locality |
Parish Priest |
Founded |
Closed |
Ref. |
Holy Souls |
Brownhill |
Fr. Peter Gerard Knowles |
1924 |
---- |
[1]
[2]
|
Sacred Heart |
Blackburn |
Fr. Michael Lavin |
1900 |
---- |
[1][3] |
St Mary |
Islington |
---- |
1859 |
1987 |
[1] |
Our Lady of the Assumption |
Little Harwood |
---- |
1957 |
1985 |
[1] |
St Alban |
Larkhill, Blackburn |
Canon Jude Harrison |
1773 |
---- |
[1][4] |
The Good Shepherd |
Blackburn |
Served from St Alban |
1968 |
---- |
[1][4] |
St Anne |
Blackburn |
Fr. James P McCartney |
1849 |
---- |
[1] |
Holy Family |
Audley, Intack and Shadsworth |
Fr David Chinnery |
|
---- |
[1] |
St Joseph |
Audley |
Served from Holy Family |
|
---- |
[1] |
St Mary |
Osbaldeston |
Canon Charles A Dorran |
1832 |
---- |
[1] |
St Jerome |
Mellor |
---- |
1970 |
1992 |
[1] |
St Teresa of the Child Jesus |
Intack |
Served from Holy Family |
1937 |
---- |
[1] |
St John Vianney |
Livesey |
Served from St Peter's |
1959 |
---- |
[1] |
Our Lady of Perpetual Succour |
Longshaw |
Fr. Edmund Willoughby S.J. |
1955 |
---- |
[1] |
St Peter in Chain |
Mill Hill |
Fr. Anthony Dutton |
1889 |
---- |
[1] |
SS Mary & John (Pleasington Priory) |
Pleasington |
Canon J Kevin Kenny |
1819 |
---- |
[1] |
St Paul (Chapel of Ease) |
Feniscowles |
Served from Priory |
|
---- |
[1] |
Christ the King & St Antony of Padua |
Shadsworth |
---- |
1959 |
2008 |
[1] |
Sacred Heart & St Edward |
Darwen |
Fr. John Dugdale |
1878 |
---- |
[1] |
St Joseph (Previously St William) |
Darwen |
Mgr Peter Wilkinson |
1856 |
---- |
[1][5] |
Parish |
Locality |
Parish Priest |
Founded |
Closed |
Ref. |
St Edmund |
Bolton |
Fr Gerry Haugh |
1860 |
---- |
[1] |
St Patrick |
Bolton |
Served from St Edmund |
1861 |
---- |
[1] |
SS Peter & Paul |
Bolton |
Served from St Edmund |
1794 |
---- |
[1][6] |
The Good Shepherd (Polish) |
Bolton |
Fr Andrzej Marcak |
|
---- |
[1] |
St Mary of the Assumption |
Bolton |
---- |
1845 |
1987 |
[1] |
The Holy Infant & St Anthony |
Astley Bridge |
Fr Colin Wright |
1877 |
---- |
[1] |
St Andrew |
Blackrod |
Fr. Kevin C Foulkes |
1961 |
---- |
[1] |
St Osmund |
Breightmet |
Fr Geoffrey Hilton |
1921 |
---- |
[1] |
St Andrew |
Breightmet |
---- |
1959 |
1998 |
[1] |
St John the Evangelist |
Bromley Cross |
Fr. Michael Cooke |
1960 |
---- |
[1] |
St Ethelbert |
Deane |
Fr Duncan McVicar SI |
1905 |
---- |
[1] |
St William of York |
Great Lever |
Fr John Mackie |
1936 |
---- |
[1] |
St Joseph |
Halliwell |
Served from St James the Great |
1879 |
---- |
[1] |
St Brendan |
Harwood |
Served from St John, Bromley Cross |
1971 |
---- |
[1] |
St Thomas of Canterbury |
Heaton |
Canon William Byrne |
1958 |
---- |
[1] |
St James the Great |
Montserrat |
Fr Patrick Tansey |
1954 |
---- |
[1] |
St Vincent de Paul |
Over Hulton |
Fr John Rigby |
1972 |
---- |
[1] |
St Columba |
Tonge Moor |
Fr Francis M McCauley |
1931 |
---- |
[1] |
Our Lady of Lourdes |
Farnworth |
Fr Gerald Murphy |
1931 |
---- |
[1] |
St Gregory the Great |
Farnworth |
Served from Our Lady of Lourdes |
1853 |
---- |
[1] |
St Mary (previously Our Lady of the Rosary) |
Horwich |
Fr Henry Jones |
1886 |
---- |
[1] |
St Antony |
Horwich |
Served from St Mary, Horwich |
1906 |
---- |
[1] |
St John Fisher |
Kearsley |
Fr. Duncan McVicar |
1960 |
---- |
[1] |
St Teresa |
Little Lever |
Served from St Mary, Radcliffe |
1963 |
---- |
[1] |
Sacred Heart of Jesus |
Westhoughton |
Fr. Michael Johonnett |
1873 |
---- |
[1] |
Parish |
Locality |
Parish Priest |
Founded |
Closed |
Ref. |
Christ the King |
Burnley |
Fr Brian Kealey |
1928 |
---- |
[1] |
St Teresa of the Infant Jesus |
Burnley |
Served from Christ the King |
|
---- |
[1] |
St John the Baptist |
Burnley |
Fr. Michael Waters |
1891 |
---- |
[1][7] |
St Mary of the Assumption |
Burnley |
Fr David Lannon |
1817 |
---- |
[1][8] |
St Mary Magdalene |
Burnley |
Fr. Michael Haworth |
1887 |
---- |
[1] |
St Augustine |
Lowerhouse |
Served from St Mary Magdalene |
1896 |
---- |
[1] |
St Philip the Apostle |
Padiham |
Served from St John the Baptist |
1953 |
---- |
[1] |
St John the Baptist |
Padiham |
Fr. Peter Hopkinson, RD |
1864 |
---- |
[1][7] |
Towneley Chapel |
Burnley |
---- |
1706 |
1872 |
[1] |
Parish |
Locality |
Parish Priest |
Founded |
Closed |
Ref. |
Our Lady Queen of Poland (Polish) |
Bury |
Fr. Dariusz Kuwaczka |
|
---- |
[1] |
St Joseph |
Bury |
Fr. Francis Wadsworth |
1861 |
---- |
[1] |
St Marie |
Bury |
Fr. Francis Wadsworth |
1825 |
---- |
[1] |
Our Lady of Good Counsel & Guardian Angels |
Elton |
Fr. Paul Cannon RD |
1886 |
---- |
[1][9] |
St Bede |
Fairfield |
---- |
1950 |
2003 |
[1] |
St Joseph |
Ramsbottom |
Fr John Sullivan |
1862 |
---- |
[1] |
Our Lady of Grace |
Prestwich |
Mgr John Francis Allen, STL, Ph.L |
1889 |
---- |
[1] |
St Mary & St Philip Neri |
Radcliffe |
Fr James Manock (Liturgical Formation) |
1863 |
---- |
[1][10] |
St Bernadette |
Whitefield |
Fr Christopher Lough |
1952 |
---- |
[1][11] |
St Michael |
Whitefield |
Fr Christopher McGrane (Priest in charge) |
1967 |
---- |
[1] |
St Hilda |
Tottington |
Fr. Gabriel O'Donoghhue |
1916 |
---- |
[1] |
Parish |
Locality |
Parish Priest |
Founded |
Closed |
Ref. |
St Joseph |
Todmorden |
Fr. Anthony F Gallagher |
1868 |
---- |
[1] |
Parish |
Locality |
Parish Priest |
Founded |
Closed |
Ref. |
St Mary (The Hidden Gem) |
Manchester City Centre |
Canon Denis Clinch |
1794 |
---- |
[1][14] |
Catholic Chaplaincy Centre |
Manchester University |
Fr Ian Kelly |
|
---- |
[1][15] |
St Augustine (Parish and University Chaplaincy) |
All Saints |
Fr Christopher Dawson, Judicial vicar |
1820 |
---- |
[1] |
St Alban |
Ancoats |
---- |
1863 |
1968 |
[1] |
St Joseph |
Goulden Street |
---- |
1852 |
1904 |
[1] |
St William |
Angel Meadow |
---- |
1864 |
1946 |
[1] |
St Anne |
Ancoats |
Fr Timothy Hopkins |
1848 |
---- |
[1] |
St Michael |
Ancoats |
---- |
1859 |
2003 |
[1] |
Our Lady of Mount Carmel |
Blackley |
Fr Bryan Cunningham |
1885 |
---- |
[1] |
St John Bosco |
Blackley |
Fr Philip J. Brady |
1940 |
---- |
[1][16] |
St Brigid |
Bradford |
Served from St Anne, Ancoats |
1879 |
---- |
[1] |
St Bernard |
Burnage |
Sede vacante |
1941 |
---- |
[1] |
St Chad |
Cheetham |
Served from St Anne, Crumpsall |
1773 |
---- |
[1][17] |
Dormition of our Lady (Ukrainian Catholic Church) |
Cheetham |
Fr Jaroslaw Rij |
|
---- |
[1][18] |
Our Lady & St John (St John's) |
Chorlton-cum-Hardy |
Fr Patrick McMahon |
1892 |
---- |
[1] |
St Ambrose of Milan |
Chorlton-cum-Hardy |
Fr Patrick Earley |
1932 |
---- |
[1] |
Church of the Holy Name of Jesus |
Chorlton-on-Medlock |
Fr Raymond Matus |
1868 |
---- |
[1][19] |
St Willibrord |
Clayton |
Fr Stewart Ansbro |
1906 |
---- |
[1] |
St Patrick |
Collyhurst |
Fr Michael Buckley |
1832 |
---- |
[1] |
St Casimir |
Collyhurst |
---- |
1904 |
1931 |
[1] |
St Malachy |
Collyhurst |
Served from St Patrick's, Collyhurst |
1922 |
---- |
[1] |
St Anne |
Crumpsall |
Fr David Glover |
1917 |
---- |
[1] |
St Catherine of Sienna |
Didsbury |
Fr Bernard Wilson |
1928 |
---- |
[1] |
Sacred Heart |
Gorton |
Fr Andrew Stringfellow |
1901 |
---- |
[1] |
St Francis of Assisi (Gorton Monastery) |
Gorton |
Served from Sacred Heart, Gorton |
1861 |
---- |
[1] |
St Clare |
Higher Blackley |
Fr David Young, OFM Conv |
1929 |
---- |
[1] |
St Wilfrid |
Hulme |
---- |
1842 |
2003 |
[1] |
St Kentigern |
Fallowfield |
Fr Thomas A. Connolly, RD |
1926 |
---- |
[1][20] |
St Joseph |
Longsight |
Fr Ian Farrell |
1888 |
---- |
[1] |
St Richard |
Longsight |
Fr Michael Dever |
1936 |
---- |
[1] |
St Robert |
Longsight |
---- |
1915 |
2003 |
[1] |
Corpus Christi |
Miles Platting |
---- |
1889 |
2007 |
[1] |
St Edmund of Canterbury |
Miles Platting |
---- |
1871 |
2007 |
[1] |
Church of Divine Mercy (Polish) |
Moss Side |
Fr Andrzej Zuziak SChr (Provincial and Parish Priest)
Fr Artur Stelmach Schr
Fr Pawel Urbanek SChr |
1961 |
---- |
[1] |
Our Lady |
Moss Side |
Fr Patrick Deegan, MA |
1949 |
---- |
[1][21] |
St Dunstan |
Moston |
Fr David Featherstone (Vocations Director) |
1912-13 |
---- |
[1] |
St John Vianney |
Moston |
Fr Brian Seale |
1968 |
---- |
[1] |
St Margaret Mary |
New Moston |
Canon Kevin O'Connor |
1935 |
---- |
[1] |
Christ the King |
Newton Heath |
Fr Alan Denneny, RD |
1937 |
---- |
[1] |
St Anne |
Higher Openshaw |
Fr James Clarke |
1849 |
---- |
[1] |
St Vincent de Paul |
Openshaw |
|
1896 |
2006 |
[1] |
St Mary of the Angels & St Clare |
Levenshulme |
Fr John Ahern |
1853 |
---- |
[1] |
St Edward the Confessor |
Rusholme |
Served from St Kentigern's, Fallowfield |
1860 |
---- |
[1] |
The English Martyrs |
Whalley Range |
Fr Geoffrey Marlor |
1876 |
---- |
[1] |
St Bernadette |
Withington |
Served from St Cuthbert's, Withington |
1958 |
---- |
[1] |
St Cuthbert |
Withington |
Fr Brendan Curley |
1874 |
---- |
[1] |
Parish |
Locality |
Parish Priest |
Founded |
Closed |
Ref. |
St Mary |
Oldham |
Served from Our Lady of Mount Carmel |
1828 |
---- |
[1][22] |
Our Lady of Mount Carmel & St Patrick |
Oldham |
Fr Philip T Sumner |
1858 |
---- |
[1][22] |
All Saints & SS Peter & Paul (Ukranian Catholic Church) |
Oldham |
Fr Bohdan-Benjamin Lysykanych, D.Litt, Syncellus |
|
---- |
[1][23] |
St Michael |
Abbeyhills |
Served from St Anne, Greenacres |
1948 |
---- |
[1] |
Sacred Heart of Jesus |
Derker |
Served from Our Lady's, Moorside |
1952 |
---- |
[1] |
Holy Rosary |
Fitton Hill |
Fr. William Molloy |
1952 |
---- |
[1] |
St Anne |
Greenacres |
Fr. Derek Woodhead |
1878 |
---- |
[1] |
Our Lady |
Moorside |
Fr. Raymond McKee |
1958 |
---- |
[1] |
St Joseph |
Shaw |
Fr John B Scanlon |
1874 |
---- |
[1] |
SS Aidan & Oswald |
Royton |
Fr. Stephen J Doyle |
1874 |
---- |
[1][24] |
St Herbert |
Chaderton |
Fr Peter McKie |
1916 |
---- |
[1] |
Holy Family |
Hollinwood |
Fr. William Molloy |
1957 |
---- |
[1] |
Corpus Christi |
Hollinwood |
Fr Dermott Heakin |
1878 |
---- |
[1] |
St Marys (The Immaculate Conception) |
Failsworth |
Fr. Patrick John McKeown |
1845 |
---- |
[1] |
St Edward |
Lees |
Canon Eugene Dolan |
1872 |
---- |
[1][25] |
Parish |
Locality |
Parish Priest |
Founded |
Closed |
Ref. |
Holy Family |
Kirkholt |
Fr. Martin Collins |
1954 |
---- |
[1][32] |
Sacred Heart |
Newbold |
Fr David F O'Kane |
1948 |
---- |
[1][33] |
St John the Baptist |
Rochdale |
Fr. Barry J Lomax PP |
1830 |
---- |
[1][34] |
St Patrick |
Rochdale |
Fr Joseph F Sweeney RD |
1856 |
---- |
[1][35] |
St Vincent De Paul |
Norden |
Fr Paul Brindle PP |
1940 |
---- |
[1][36] |
Our Lady of Czestochowa & Maximilian Kolbe |
Rochdale |
Fr Joseph Wozniak Schram |
|
---- |
[1] |
St Gabriel & the Angels |
Castleton |
Fr Barry Lomax |
1879 |
---- |
[1] |
St Peter |
Middleton |
Fr. Kieren Mullarkey |
1867 |
---- |
[1] |
St Thomas More |
Alkrington |
Fr Peter McGiveron |
1960 |
---- |
[1] |
St Agnes & St John Fisher |
Middleton |
Served from Our Lady's, Langley |
1966 |
---- |
[1] |
St Agnes |
Middleton |
---- |
1966 |
2003 |
[1] |
Our Lady of The Assumption |
Langley |
Fr. Tadgh Mullins |
1953 |
---- |
[1] |
St Columba |
Langley |
---- |
1959 |
1992 |
[1] |
Our Lady & St Paul |
Heywood |
Fr. James Ryan |
1963 |
---- |
[1] |
St Joseph |
Heywood |
Fr Paul Daly |
1853 |
---- |
[1] |
St Mary of the Annunciation |
Littleborough |
Fr. Arthur C Nearey |
1879 |
---- |
[1] |
Our Lady |
Holts |
---- |
1964 |
1991 |
[1] |
Parish |
Locality |
Parish Priest |
Founded |
Closed |
Ref. |
Holy Family |
Reddish |
Fr. Anthony Petty |
1954 |
---- |
[1] |
St Joseph |
Reddish |
Canon Maurice O'Connell |
1882 |
---- |
[1] |
St Mary |
Heaton Norris |
Served from St Winifred |
1867 |
---- |
[1] |
St Winifred |
Heaton Mersey |
Mgr Provost Michael R Quinlan |
1911 |
---- |
[1] |
Parish |
Locality |
Parish Priest |
Erected |
Closed |
Ref. |
The Holy Family |
New Springs, Wigan |
Mgr Canon Mark Davies (Vicar General) |
1898 |
---- |
[1] |
Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception |
Haigh |
Fr. Kevin C Foulkes |
1854 |
---- |
[1] |
St Andrew |
Blackrod |
Served from Our Lady's, Haigh |
|
---- |
[1] |
References
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). "Salford". Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.
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