Our history in England

On the 3rd November of 1999, Cormac Murphy O’Connor then Bishop of Arundel and Brighton officially opened our house and welcomed us to East Molesey. Our first house was in Slough where we had started our work in England. From there we moved to Datchet and finally to our present house in East Molesey. We had always a very close relationship with England, Scotland and Wales because of the Irish immigrants and volunteer priests who were with us on the missions but it was only in later years that we saw a necessity to have a permanent house here to coordinate our work.

At the moment we have four St. Patrick’s priests living in East Molesey working on Mission Appeals. The other priests are working in Parishes, Two priests in Arundel and Brighton, four priests in Northampton Diocese, One priest in Portsmouth Diocese and one in Clifton Diocese. We have also one priest working in the Southampton Seafarers’ Centre.
There are four of our priests working in Scotland.