The Bishop of Derry, Bishop Donal McKeown has announced the following clerical changes, effective from August 31:
Rev Seamus Kelly, PP Dungiven to be Priest-in-Residence Dungiven
Rev Declan Boland, PP Camus to be Priest-in-Residence Camus, Clonleigh and Leckpatrick
Rev Michael McCaughey, PP Three Patrons, to be PP Camus and PP Clonleigh and PP Leckpatrick
Rev Colm O’Doherty, PP Clonleigh, to be PP Moville Lower
Rev Gerard Sweeney, PP Leckpatrick, to be PP Dungiven
Rev Dermot McGirr, CC Ballinascreen and Desertmartin, to be PP Banagher
Rev Micheál McGavigan, Adm Banagher, to be PP Three Patrons, in addition to his existing appointments as Judicial Vicar, Director of the Diocesan Pastoral Centre and Instructor for the Armagh Inter-diocesan Marriage Tribunal
Rev Edward Gallagher, PP Moville Lower, to be CC Camus and CC Clonleigh and CC Leckpatrick
Rev Michael McCaul, CC Drumragh, to be CC Ballinascreen and Desertmartin
Rev Joseph Varghese, CC Dungiven, to be CC Drumragh
Rev Oliver Crilly, Priest-in-Residence Urney and Castlefin, to retire