The Diocese of Salford shown within the Ecclesiastical Province of Liverpool
This list compiles the entirety of the parishes within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford, located in the north of England.
The list of parishes are each divided by their local authority.
| Parish |
Locality |
Parish Priest |
Founded |
Closed |
Ref. |
| Holy Souls |
Brownhill |
Served from St Alban's |
1924 |
---- |
|
| Sacred Heart |
Blackburn |
James McCartney |
1900 |
---- |
|
| St Mary |
Islington |
---- |
1859 |
1987 |
|
| Our Lady of the Assumption |
Little Harwood |
---- |
1957 |
1985 |
|
| St Alban |
Larkhill, Blackburn |
Jude Harrison |
1773 |
---- |
|
| The Good Shepherd |
Blackburn |
Served from St Alban |
1968 |
---- |
|
| St Anne |
Blackburn |
Served from the Sacred Heart |
1849 |
---- |
|
| Holy Family |
Audley, Intack and Shadsworth |
Ged Barry |
|
---- |
|
| St Joseph |
Audley |
Served from Holy Family |
1869 |
---- |
|
| St Mary |
Osbaldeston |
|
1832 |
---- |
|
| St Jerome |
Mellor |
---- |
1970 |
1992 |
|
| St Teresa of the Child Jesus |
Intack |
Served from Holy Family |
1937 |
---- |
|
| St John Vianney |
Livesey |
Served from St Peter's |
1959 |
---- |
|
| Our Lady of Perpetual Succour |
Longshaw |
Served from Holy Family |
1955 |
---- |
|
| St Peter in Chains |
Mill Hill |
Anthony Dutton |
1889 |
---- |
|
| SS Mary & John (Pleasington Priory) |
Pleasington |
J Kevin Kenny |
1819 |
---- |
|
| St Paul (Chapel of Ease) |
Feniscowles |
Served from Priory |
|
---- |
|
| Christ the King & St Antony of Padua |
Shadsworth |
---- |
1959 |
2008 |
|
| Sacred Heart & St Edward |
Darwen |
Served from St Joseph's |
1878 |
---- |
|
| St Joseph (Previously St William) |
Darwen |
Peter Wilkinson |
1856 |
---- |
|
Borough of Bolton
| Parish |
Locality |
Parish Priest |
Founded |
Closed |
Ref. |
| St Edmund |
Bolton |
Gerry Haugh |
1860 |
---- |
|
| St Patrick |
Bolton |
Served from St Edmund |
1861 |
---- |
|
| Ss Peter & Paul |
Bolton |
---- |
1794 |
2009 |
|
| The Good Shepherd (Polish) |
Bolton |
Andrzej Marcak |
|
---- |
|
| St Mary of the Assumption |
Bolton |
---- |
1845 |
1987 |
|
| The Holy Infant & St Anthony |
Astley Bridge |
William Molloy |
1877 |
---- |
|
| St Osmund |
Breightmet |
Geoffrey Hilton |
1921 |
---- |
|
| St Andrew |
Breightmet |
---- |
1959 |
1998 |
|
| St John the Evangelist |
Bromley Cross |
Michael Cooke |
1960 |
---- |
|
| St Ethelbert |
Deane |
Duncan McVicar |
1905 |
---- |
|
| St William of York |
Great Lever |
Morrough O'Brien |
1936 |
---- |
|
| St Joseph |
Halliwell |
Served from St James the Great |
1879 |
---- |
|
| St Brendan |
Harwood |
Served from St John, Bromley Cross |
1971 |
---- |
|
| St Thomas of Canterbury |
Heaton |
William Byrne |
1958 |
---- |
|
| St James the Great |
Montserrat |
Patrick Tansey |
1954 |
---- |
|
| St Vincent de Paul |
Over Hulton |
Served from St Ethelbert |
1972 |
---- |
|
| St Columba |
Tonge Moor |
|
1931 |
2017 |
|
| Our Lady of Lourdes |
Farnworth |
John Dale |
1931 |
---- |
|
| St Gregory the Great |
Farnworth |
Served from Our Lady of Lourdes |
1853 |
---- |
|
| St Mary (previously Our Lady of the Rosary) |
Horwich |
Barry O'Sullivan |
1886 |
---- |
|
| St Antony |
Horwich |
---- |
1906 |
2012 |
|
| St John Fisher |
Kearsley |
David Musgrave |
1960 |
---- |
|
| St Teresa |
Little Lever |
Served from St Mary, Radcliffe |
1963 |
---- |
|
| St Aldhelm (also Edgeworth) |
Turton |
Founded at Thomasons Fold, independent from 1902, served from St John, Bromley Cross from 1968 - 1992 |
1890 |
1992 |
|
| Sacred Heart of Jesus |
Westhoughton |
Richard Aspden |
1873 |
---- |
|
Borough of Burnley
| Parish |
Locality |
Parish Priest |
Founded |
Closed |
Ref. |
| Christ the King |
Burnley |
Brian Kealey |
1928 |
---- |
|
| St Teresa of the Infant Jesus |
Burnley |
Served from Christ the King |
|
---- |
|
| St John the Baptist |
Burnley |
Michael Waters |
1891 |
---- |
|
| St Mary of the Assumption |
Burnley |
Peter Hopkinson (Dean) |
1817 |
---- |
|
| St Mary Magdalene |
Burnley |
Michael Haworth |
1887 |
---- |
|
| St Augustine |
Lowerhouse |
Served from St Mary Magdalene |
1896 |
---- |
|
| St Philip the Apostle |
Padiham |
|
1953 |
2017 |
|
| St John the Baptist |
Padiham |
Peter Hopkinson |
1864 |
---- |
|
| Towneley Chapel |
Burnley |
---- |
1706 |
1872 |
|
| Parish |
Locality |
Parish Priest |
Founded |
Closed |
Ref. |
| Our Lady Queen of Poland (Polish) |
Bury |
Dariusz Kuwaczka |
|
---- |
|
| St Joseph |
Bury |
Francis Wadsworth |
1861 |
---- |
|
| St Marie |
Bury |
Francis Wadsworth |
1825 |
---- |
|
| Our Lady of Good Counsel & Guardian Angels |
Elton |
Paul Cannon |
1886 |
---- |
|
| St Bede |
Fairfield |
---- |
1950 |
2003 |
|
| St Joseph |
Ramsbottom |
John Sullivan |
1862 |
---- |
|
| Our Lady of Grace |
Prestwich |
John Francis Allen |
1889 |
---- |
|
| St Mary & St Philip Neri |
Radcliffe |
James Manock (Liturgical Formation) |
1863 |
---- |
|
| St Bernadette |
Whitefield |
Christopher Lough |
1952 |
---- |
|
| St Michael |
Whitefield |
Served from St Bernadette's |
1967 |
---- |
|
| St Hilda |
Tottington |
Christopher McGrane |
1916 |
---- |
|
Borough of Calderdale
| Parish |
Locality |
Parish Priest |
Founded |
Closed |
Ref. |
| St Joseph |
Todmorden |
Seamus Quigley |
1868 |
---- |
|
Borough of Hyndburn
| Parish |
Locality |
Parish Priest |
Founded |
Closed |
Ref. |
| St Oswald / Sacred Heart |
Accrington |
---- |
1852 |
2003 |
|
| St Anne |
Accrington |
Simon Stamp |
1897 |
---- |
|
| St Joseph |
Accrington |
Paul Blackburn |
1949 |
---- |
|
| Our Lady's Chapel |
Huncoat |
Served from St Joseph |
1949 |
---- |
|
| St Mary |
Clayton-le-Moors |
Peter Tierney |
1819 |
---- |
|
| Our Lady & St Hubert |
Great Harwood |
Served from St Wulstan |
1859 |
---- |
|
| St Wulstan |
Great Harwood |
J Anthony Clarke |
1912 |
---- |
|
| St Charles Borromeo |
Rishton |
Martin C Dowd |
1886 |
---- |
|
| Parish |
Locality |
Parish Priest |
Founded |
Closed |
Ref. |
| St Mary (The Hidden Gem) |
Manchester City Centre |
Anthony Kay |
1794 |
---- |
|
| Catholic Chaplaincy Centre |
Manchester University |
|
|
---- |
|
| St Augustine (Parish and University Chaplaincy) |
All Saints |
|
1820 |
---- |
|
| St Alban |
Ancoats |
---- |
1863 |
1968 |
|
| St Joseph |
Goulden Street |
---- |
1852 |
1904 |
|
| St William |
Angel Meadow |
---- |
1864 |
1946 |
|
| St Anne |
Ancoats |
|
1848 |
---- |
|
| St Michael |
Ancoats |
---- |
1859 |
2003 |
|
| Our Lady of Mount Carmel |
Blackley |
Philip Brady |
1885 |
---- |
|
| St John Bosco |
Blackley |
Served from Mount Carmel |
1940 |
---- |
|
| St Brigid |
Bradford |
Served from St Anne, Ancoats |
1879 |
---- |
|
| St Bernard |
Burnage |
Michael Kujacz |
1941 |
---- |
|
| St Chad's |
Cheetham |
|
1773 |
---- |
|
| Dormition of our Lady (Ukrainian Catholic Church) |
Cheetham |
Jaroslaw Rij |
|
---- |
|
| Our Lady & St John (St John's) |
Chorlton-cum-Hardy |
Patrick McMahon |
1892 |
---- |
|
| St Ambrose of Milan |
Chorlton-cum-Hardy |
William Foley |
1932 |
---- |
|
| Church of the Holy Name of Jesus |
Chorlton-on-Medlock |
|
1868 |
---- |
|
| St Willibrord |
Clayton |
Michael Job |
1906 |
---- |
|
| St Patrick |
Collyhurst |
Gerald Murphy |
1832 |
---- |
|
| St Casimir |
Collyhurst |
---- |
1904 |
1931 |
|
| St Malachy |
Collyhurst |
Served from St Patrick's, Collyhurst |
1922 |
---- |
|
| St Anne |
Crumpsall |
David Glover |
1917 |
---- |
|
| St Catherine of Sienna |
Didsbury |
Bernard Wilson |
1928 |
---- |
|
| Sacred Heart |
Gorton |
|
1901 |
---- |
|
| St Francis of Assisi (Gorton Monastery) |
Gorton |
Served from Sacred Heart, Gorton |
1861 |
---- |
|
| St Clare |
Higher Blackley |
David Young |
1929 |
---- |
|
| St Wilfrid |
Hulme |
---- |
1842 |
2003 |
|
| St Kentigern |
Fallowfield |
Thomas A. Connolly |
1926 |
---- |
|
| St Joseph |
Longsight |
Ian Farrell |
1888 |
---- |
|
| St Richard |
Longsight |
Michael Dever |
1936 |
---- |
|
| St Robert |
Longsight |
---- |
1915 |
2003 |
|
| Corpus Christi |
Miles Platting |
---- |
1889 |
2007 |
|
| St Edmund of Canterbury |
Miles Platting |
---- |
1871 |
2007 |
|
| Church of Divine Mercy (Polish) |
Moss Side |
Andrzej Zuziak (Provincial and Parish Priest)
Artur Stelmach
Pawel Urbanek |
1961 |
---- |
|
| Our Lady |
Moss Side |
Patrick Deegan |
1949 |
---- |
|
| St Dunstan |
Moston |
David Featherstone (Vocations Director) |
1912-13 |
---- |
|
| St John Vianney |
Moston |
Served from St Dunstan |
1968 |
---- |
|
| St Margaret Mary |
New Moston |
Served from St Dunstan |
1935 |
---- |
|
| Christ the King |
Newton Heath |
Alan Denneny |
1937 |
---- |
|
| St Anne |
Higher Openshaw |
James Clarke |
1849 |
---- |
|
| St Vincent de Paul |
Openshaw |
|
1896 |
2006 |
|
| St Mary of the Angels & St Clare |
Levenshulme |
Served from St Richard |
1853 |
---- |
|
| St Edward the Confessor |
Rusholme |
Served from St Kentigern's, Fallowfield |
1860 |
---- |
|
| The English Martyrs |
Whalley Range |
Geoffrey Marlor |
1876 |
---- |
|
| St Bernadette |
Withington |
Served from St Cuthbert's, Withington |
1958 |
---- |
|
| St Cuthbert |
Withington |
Brendan Curley |
1874 |
---- |
|
| Parish |
Locality |
Parish Priest |
Founded |
Closed |
Ref. |
| St Mary |
Oldham |
Served from Our Lady of Mount Carmel |
1828 |
---- |
|
| Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St Patrick Church |
Oldham |
Philip T Sumner |
1858 |
---- |
|
| All Saints & SS Peter & Paul (Ukrainian Catholic Church) |
Oldham |
Bohdan-Benjamin Lysykanych |
|
---- |
|
| St Michael |
Abbeyhills |
Served from St Anne, Greenacres |
1948 |
---- |
|
| Sacred Heart of Jesus |
Derker Now Closed |
Served from Our Lady's, Moorside |
1952 |
---- |
|
| Holy Rosary |
Fitton Hill |
William Molloy |
1952 |
---- |
|
| St Anne |
Greenacres |
Derek Woodhead |
1878 |
---- |
|
| Our Lady |
Moorside |
Derek Woodhead |
1958 |
---- |
|
| St Joseph |
Shaw |
John B Scanlon |
1874 |
---- |
|
| SS Aidan & Oswald |
Royton |
Stephen J Doyle |
1874 |
---- |
|
| St Herbert |
Chadderton |
Peter McKie |
1916 |
---- |
|
| Holy Family |
Hollinwood |
William Molloy |
1957 |
---- |
|
| Corpus Christi |
Hollinwood |
Dermot Heakin |
1878 |
---- |
|
| St Marys (The Immaculate Conception) |
Failsworth |
Patrick John McKeown |
1845 |
---- |
|
| St Edward |
Lees |
|
1872 |
---- |
|
Borough of Pendle
| Parish |
Locality |
Parish Priest |
Founded |
Closed |
Ref. |
| Holy Trinity |
Brierfield |
---- |
1895 |
2003 |
|
| Sacred Heart |
Colne |
Christopher Gorton |
1871 |
---- |
|
| St Ursula |
Cotton Tree |
---- |
1912 |
2003 |
|
| Holy Saviour |
Nelson |
Served from Sacred Heart |
1896 |
---- |
|
| St John Southworth |
Nelson |
Brian Murphy |
1992 |
---- |
|
| Christ Church |
Nelson |
Served from St John Southworth |
2004 |
---- |
|
| St Joseph |
Nelson |
---- |
1884 |
2004 |
|
| St George |
Nelson |
---- |
1900 |
1992 |
|
| SS Peter & Paul |
Barrowford |
Served from Sacred Heart |
1897 |
---- |
|
Borough of Ribble Valley
| Church |
Locality |
Rector |
Founded |
Closed |
Ref. |
| St Mary |
Chipping |
Served from Longridge |
1828 |
---- |
|
| St Michael & St John, Lowergate |
Clitheroe |
John Corcoran |
1797 |
---- |
|
| St Hubert |
Dunsop Bridge |
Served from Clitheroe |
1864 |
---- |
|
| St Mary (Our Lady Assumed into Heaven) |
Langho |
Leo Heakin |
1836 |
---- |
|
| St Wilfrid |
Longridge |
David Chinnery |
1869 |
---- |
|
| SS Peter & Paul |
Ribchester |
Served from Longridge |
1789 |
---- |
|
| St Mary (Queen of Peace) |
Sabden |
Served from Clitheroe |
1873 |
---- |
|
| English Martyrs |
Whalley |
Philip Price |
1921 |
---- |
|
| St Peter (Stonyhurst College) |
Stonyhurst |
Tim Curtis |
1832 |
---- |
|
| St Joseph (Chapel of Ease) |
Hurst Green |
Served from St Peter, Stonyhurst |
|
---- |
|
Borough of Rochdale
| Parish |
Locality |
Parish Priest |
Founded |
Closed |
Ref. |
| Holy Family |
Kirkholt |
|
1954 |
---- |
|
| Sacred Heart |
Newbold |
David F O'Kane |
1948 |
---- |
|
| St John the Baptist |
Rochdale |
Served from St Gabriel's |
1830 |
---- |
|
| St Patrick |
Rochdale |
Joseph F Sweeney |
1856 |
---- |
|
| St Vincent De Paul |
Norden |
Paul Brindle |
1940 |
---- |
|
| Our Lady of Czestochowa & Maximilian Kolbe |
Rochdale |
Joseph Wozniak Schram |
|
---- |
|
| St Gabriel & the Angels |
Castleton |
Michael Johonnett |
1879 |
---- |
|
| St Peter |
Middleton |
Kieren Mullarkey |
1867 |
---- |
|
| St Thomas More |
Alkrington |
Peter McGiveron |
1960 |
---- |
|
| St Agnes & St John Fisher |
Middleton |
Served from Our Lady's, Langley |
1966 |
---- |
|
| St Agnes |
Middleton |
---- |
1966 |
2003 |
|
| Our Lady of The Assumption |
Langley |
Tadgh Mullins |
1953 |
---- |
|
| St Columba |
Langley |
---- |
1959 |
1992 |
|
| Our Lady & St Paul |
Heywood |
|
1963 |
2018 |
|
| Our Lady & St Joseph |
Heywood |
Paul Daly |
1853 |
---- |
|
| St Mary of the Annunciation |
Littleborough |
Arthur C Nearey |
1879 |
---- |
|
| Our Lady of Lourdes |
Holts |
---- |
1964 |
1991 |
|
| Parish |
Locality |
Parish Priest |
Founded |
Closed |
Ref. |
| St Mary |
Bacup |
Served from St Anselm |
1852 |
---- |
|
| Our Immaculate Mother & St Anselm |
Whitworth |
Frank Thorpe |
1860 |
---- |
|
| St Joseph |
Stacksteads |
---- |
1947 |
2005 |
|
| St Joseph & St Peter |
Newchurch-In-Rossendale |
Philip Boast |
1915 |
---- |
|
| The Immaculate Conception |
Haslingden |
John Mackie |
1854 |
---- |
|
| St Veronica (Chapel of Ease) |
Helmshore |
Served from The Immaculate Conception |
1959 |
---- |
|
| St James the Less |
Rawtenstall |
Anthony McBride |
1828 |
---- |
|
| Parish |
Locality |
Parish Priest |
Founded |
Closed |
Ref. |
| Cathedral Church of St John the Evangelist |
Salford |
Michael Jones |
1848 |
---- |
|
| Our Lady of Delours |
Kersal |
Peter Conniffe |
1923 |
---- |
|
| St Peter |
Greengate |
---- |
1863 |
1984 |
|
| Our Lady of Mount Carmel |
Ordsall |
---- |
1875 |
1978 |
|
| St Joseph |
Ordsall |
Served from the Cathedral |
1871 |
2020 |
|
| St Thomas of Canterbury |
Higher Broughton |
David MacFarlane |
1878 |
---- |
|
| St Philip Benizi |
Lower Kersal |
---- |
1927 |
2004 |
|
| St Boniface |
Lower Broughton |
Served from St Thomas of Canterbury |
1895 |
2018 |
|
| Mother of God & St James |
Pendleton |
Shaun K Braiden |
1875 |
---- |
|
| SS Peter & Paul |
Pendleton |
Anthony McBride |
1956 |
---- |
|
| St Sebastian |
Pendleton |
Served from St Thomas of Canterbury |
1892 |
---- |
|
| All Souls & St John Vianney |
Weaste |
---- |
1892 |
2010 |
|
| St Mark |
Pendlebury |
Barry Lomax |
1923 |
---- |
|
| St Gilbert |
Brookhouse, Peel Green |
---- |
1959 |
2006 |
|
| St Mary |
Eccles |
Robert Livesey |
1879 |
---- |
|
| Holy Cross |
Patricroft |
Martin Collins |
1961 |
---- |
|
| St Joseph the Worker |
Irlam |
Lionel Devany |
1963 |
---- |
|
| St Teresa of Avila |
Irlam |
Desmond O'Driscoll |
1874 |
---- |
|
| Sacred Heart |
Cadishead |
Served from St Teresa |
1962 |
---- |
|
| St Luke |
Irlams o' th' Height |
John Williams |
1922 |
---- |
|
| St Edmund, King and Martyr |
Little Hulton |
Michael Buckley |
1876 |
---- |
|
| Lancashire Martyrs |
Little Hulton |
Served from St Edmund |
1959 |
---- |
|
| St Joseph |
Little Hulton |
---- |
1961 |
2010 |
|
| Christ The King |
Walkden |
Martin J Broadley |
1952 |
---- |
|
| St Matthew |
Winton |
Served from The Holy Cross, Patricroft |
1957 |
---- |
|
| St Charles |
Swinton |
Paul Smith |
1923 |
---- |
|
| St Mary of the Immaculate Conception |
Swinton |
Served from St Mark, Pendlebury |
1847 |
---- |
|
Borough of South Ribble
| Parish |
Locality |
Parish Priest |
Founded |
Closed |
Ref. |
| St Mary |
Bamber Bridge |
Terence Richardson |
1780 |
---- |
|
| Our Lady of Lourdes & St Gerard Majella |
Lostock Hall |
Dom Xavier Ho |
1891 |
---- |
|
| St Mary & St John Southworth |
Samlesbury |
served from Walton le Dale |
1690 |
---- |
|
| Our Lady and St Patrick |
Walton-le-Dale |
Philip Nathaniel |
1855 |
---- |
|
Borough of Stockport
| Parish |
Locality |
Parish Priest |
Founded |
Closed |
Ref. |
| Holy Family |
Reddish |
Christopher Dawson |
1954 |
---- |
|
| St Joseph |
Reddish |
Maurice O'Connell |
1882 |
---- |
|
| St Mary |
Heaton Norris |
Served from St Winifred |
1867 |
---- |
|
| St Winifred |
Heaton Mersey |
Provost Michael R Quinlan |
1911 |
---- |
|
| Parish |
Locality |
Parish Priest |
Founded |
Closed |
Ref. |
| St Ann |
Ashton-under-Lyne |
Simon Firth |
1852 |
---- |
|
| St Mary |
Ashton-under-Lyne |
---- |
1856 |
2002 |
|
| St Christopher |
Hurst Cross |
Served from St Anne, Ashton |
1951 |
---- |
|
| St Paul |
Guide Bridge |
---- |
1962 |
2010 |
|
| St Mary (Our Lady of Sorrows) |
Denton |
Peter Kinsella |
1869 |
---- |
|
| St Stephen |
Droylsden |
William Fallon |
1935 |
---- |
|
| St John Fisher |
Haughton Green |
Served from St Mary, Denton |
1965 |
---- |
|
| St Joseph |
Mossley |
Michael Lavin |
1856 |
---- |
|
| Parish |
Locality |
Parish Priest |
Founded |
Closed |
Ref. |
| St Monica |
Flixton |
Bernard Charnock |
1950 |
---- |
|
| Our Lady of the Rosary |
Davyhulme |
---- |
1960 |
2010 |
|
| St Alphonsus |
Old Trafford |
Served from Our Lady's, Moss Side |
1903 |
---- |
|
| English Martyrs |
Urmston |
David Featherstone |
1891 |
---- |
|
| St Antony of Padua |
Trafford Park |
|
1904 |
2010 |
|
| St Ann's |
Stretford |
John P Hitchen |
1859 |
---- |
|
| St Hugh of Lincoln |
Stretford |
Michael Cleary |
1938 |
---- |
|
| St Teresa |
Stretford |
|
1928 |
2009 |
|
| All Saints Franciscan Friary |
Urmston |
Brendan Blundell |
1798 |
---- |
|
Borough of Wigan
| Parish |
Locality |
Parish Priest |
Erected |
Closed |
Ref. |
| The Holy Family |
New Springs, Wigan |
Served from Our Lady, Haigh |
1898 |
---- |
|
| Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception |
Haigh |
Kevin C Foulkes |
1854 |
---- |
|
| St Andrew |
Blackrod |
---- |
1961 |
2012 |
|
See also
