St Werburgh's Roman Catholic Parish, Chester

Previous clergy

  Fr Neill Robb
Retired in residence
2019-
  Fr Martin Onuoha
In residence
2010-2011
  Fr Peter Sharrocks
Parish Priest
1992-2006
Now Parish Priest at St Peter's, Hazel Grove, Stockport
  Fr Peter Hooper
In residence
2003-2005
  Fr Paul Standish
Curate
Now at St John Vianney, incorporating St Wilfrid’s in Northwich, Our Lady of Fatima in Barnton and St Bede’s in Weaverham
  Fr Andrew Lloyd MBE
Curate
1988-1995
Served as army chaplain 1995-2011
  Fr Michael Lester
Assistant
1983-1988
Now Parish Priest at Our Lady of Pity, Greasby
  Mgr Canon Vincent Turnbull
Parish Priest
1982-1992 2000
  Fr Peter O'Grady
Assistant
1971-1975 2012
  Fr Gerry Courell
Curate
1968-1974 2012
  Fr Jackie Warnock
Curate
1960-1967 2012
  Canon Francis Murphy
Parish Priest
1959-1982 1990; buried at St.Winifred's in Neston
  Canon Hugh Welch
Parish Priest
1948-1959
  Canon James Fraser
Curate
1945-1953
Biography
  Fr Gerard Corcoran
In residence
1944-1945 1963
  Joseph Irish
Curate
1940-1941 1963
Biography
  Maurice Hayes
Parish Priest
1927-1948; interred Overleigh Cemetery, Chester
  Eugene Rooney
Parish Priest
1925-1927
  Edward Cronin
Curate
1902-1904 1910; interred Flaybrick Hill Cemetery, Birkenhead
  Joseph Chambers
Parish Priest
1902-1924 interred Overleigh Cemetery, Chester
  James Benedict Abram
Curate
1891-1897
Biography
  Edward Lynch
Parish Priest
1883-1902
Assistant
1870-1871
  Wilfred Dallow
Parish Priest
1882-1883
  Pacificus Capitani
Assistant
1880-1882
  Charles Cholmondeley
Assistant
1871-1892 1897
  James O'Brien
Assistant
1871-1875
  Eugene Buquet
Parish Priest
1868-1882
  William Walton
Parish Priest
1867-1868 1872
Biography
  Thomas Mulvanny
Assistant
1866-1870
  Peter Lahaye
Parish Priest
1865-1867
  Henry Hopkins
Parish Priest
1861-1865
  Edward Carbery
Parish Priest
1838-1861
  John Wilcock
Parish Priest
1833-1838
  John Briggs
Parish Priest
1816-1833 1861
  John Ashurst
Parish Priest
1814-1816
  Thomas Penswick
Parish Priest
1797-1814 1837
  James Lancaster
Parish Priest
1794-1796 1827