DOWN AND CONNOR CLERICAL APPOINTMENTS - August 2012
Having considered the pastoral needs of the people of the Diocese, Bishop Noel Treanor has made the following appointments which took effect as of the weekend of 8/9 September 2012
Fr Aidan Kerr PP Glenarm, to be PP Larne, covering Glenarm and Larne pastoral area
Fr Dermot McKay PP Larne, to be PP Glenarm, covering Glenarm and Larne pastoral area
Fr Michael McConville to assist at weekends in Glenarm and Larne pastoral area
Fr Eugene O’Neill CC Glengormley, to be PP Killyleagh
Fr Brendan Mulhall CSsR CC Downpatrick, to be Administrator ad interim Holy Trinity parish, Belfast
Fr Sean Cahill to be CC Upper Mourne (Kilkeel)
Fr Anthony Fitzsimons CC Upper Mourne, to be CC Downpatrick
Fr Damian McCaughan to be CC, St Mary’s on the Hill, Glengormley
Fr Conor McGrath to be CC, Antrim
Fr Aloysius Lumala to be Assistant Priest at St Teresa’s, Belfast
Fr Robert Sloan to be CC, St Agnes parish, Belfast
Fr Gerard Fox to be Director of Formation at Diocesan Seminary in addition to being Chaplain at City Hospital, Belfast
Fr Colm Curran PP Killyleagh, to pursue further studies at Dalgan Park, Navan
Fr Michał Rosengart to assist at St John’s parish, Belfast
Fr John Burns CC Larne, to assist at St Oliver Plunkett, Belfast
Fr Marius Dabrowski CC St John’s returns to his diocese of Warmia in Poland. We thank him and his diocese for his work and service over six years in St John’s parish and his care for the Polish community.
Fr Robert Markuszewski CC St Agnes returns to Poland where he will continue post-graduate studies at the University of Lublin. We thank him and his diocese for his three years of service and work in St Agnes parish and his work with the Polish community
Together with Bishops Farquhar and McKeown, I should like to record my thanks once again to all our priest colleagues affected by these appointments.
We thank them for their cooperation.
We wish them God’s blessing, good health and fulfilment in their new appointments.