{"id":639,"date":"2017-03-12T18:24:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T18:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?page_id=639"},"modified":"2022-09-30T08:30:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T07:30:52","slug":"parish-priests","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?page_id=639","title":{"rendered":"Parish Priests"},"content":{"rendered":"

St Thomas’ parish has been served by almost 20 parish priests since its establishment in 1861.<\/p>\n

It is a good and holy thing to pray for those men who served our community. Some have died and others have retired.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
James McNamara\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n1863 – 1880; \u2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bernard Tracy<\/strong><\/td>\n1880 – 1893; \u2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Duncan Brown<\/strong><\/td>\n1893 – 1900; \u2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aloysius Reifenrath<\/strong><\/td>\n1900 – 1924; \u2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
John F. Clark<\/strong><\/td>\n1924 – 1931; \u2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
John Ashe<\/strong><\/td>\n1931 – 1938; \u2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Joseph Costeur\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n1938 – 1941; \u2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
James Hogan<\/strong><\/td>\n1941 – 1945; \u2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gerald McDade<\/strong><\/td>\n1945 – 1947; \u2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Daniel McGlinchey\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n1947 – 1951; \u2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Richard Fennessy<\/strong><\/td>\n1951 – 1959; \u2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Donald Bonnar<\/strong><\/td>\n1959 – 1968; \u2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vincent Grace<\/strong><\/td>\n1968 – 1971; \u2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
James J. Sheehan<\/strong><\/td>\n1971 – 1980; \u2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
James Murphy<\/strong><\/td>\n1980 – 1990; \u2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
John McElroy<\/strong><\/td>\n1990 – 1999; retired, St Mary’s, Paisley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bernard J. Canning<\/strong><\/td>\n1999 – 2007; retired, Holy Rosary Residence, Greenock<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
James Cunnigham<\/strong><\/td>\n2007 – 2015; retired, St Charles’, Paisley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Joseph Balmer<\/strong><\/td>\n2015 – 2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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St Thomas’ parish has been served by almost 20 parish priests since its establishment in 1861. It is a good and holy thing to pray for those men who served our community. Some have died and others have retired. James McNamara\u00a0 1863 – 1880; \u2020 Bernard Tracy 1880 – 1893; \u2020 Duncan Brown 1893 – … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["entry","page","publish","author-ryan-black","post-639"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P85OtW-aj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4033,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/639\/revisions\/4033"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}