John Barrett (bishop)

The Right Reverend
John Patrick Barrett
Bishop of Plymouth
Province Southwark
Diocese Plymouth
Installed 7 June 1929
Term ended 2 November 1946
Predecessor John Joseph Keily
Successor Francis Joseph Grimshaw
Orders
Ordination 19 June 1906
Consecration 22 February 1927
Personal details
Born 31 October 1878
Died 2 November 1946 (aged 68)
Denomination Catholic

John Patrick Barrett (31 October 1878 – 2 November 1946), was a British clergyman who held high office in the Roman Catholic Church.[1][2]

He was born on 31 October 1878 in Liverpool, England. He was educated at St Edward's College, Everton, and at the University of London (he gained his Bachelor of Arts (BA) there, a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) later, and a Doctor of Divinity (DD) from the Pontifical Gregorian University). He was ordained a priest on 19 June 1906 at Upholland, Skelmersdale.[2] After a period as a priest, he became Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham in 1927 and was elevated to the episcopy as the fifth Bishop of Plymouth on 7 June 1929; he was enthroned on 31 July and continued in the post until his death.[1] When his house was destroyed in an air raid in 1941, during the Second World War, he moved into a nearby convent, where he died suddenly but peacefully on 2 November 1946.[3]

During Barrett's time as bishop, several new places of worship were established. At Ottery, two female converts set up a chapel at Raleigh House, which later became St Anthony's Church. The Marist Sisters set up a convent in the town in 1940, which continued until 2007.[4] The foundation stone of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament at Heavitree was laid by Barrett in 1931.[5] The Church of Our Lady of Lourdes in Plympton was designed by Leonard Drysdale and built in memory of Barrett's predecessor, John Keily, and was consecrated in 1934.[6]

St Boniface's Catholic College in Plymouth has an apartment named after him.

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Notes

  1. 1 2 "John Patrick Barrett". Catholic Hierarchy. Retrieved 2009-06-20.
  2. 1 2 "Past Bishops". Diocese of Plymouth. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  3. ↑ "THE BISHOP OF PLYMOUTH". The Tablet. 9 November 1946. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  4. ↑ "History". St. Anthony’s Church. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  5. ↑ "History". Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  6. ↑ "Catholic Church of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish History 1932-2002". www.rc.net. Retrieved 17 August 2016.


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