CATHOLIC CHURCH OF OUR LADY, HELP OF CHRISTIANS

Bibliography
The history of the parish is based on the extracts from:

Catholic Folkestone, A Post-Reformation History by Eammon D. Rooney and Dennis Creighton-Davies

Copyright: Roman Catholic Parish of Our Lady, Help of Christians & St. Aloysius, Folkestone

Copies of the booklet may be obtained from:

The Catholic Presbytery
41 Guildhall Street
Folkestone
Kent CT20 1EF

Priests who have served the Parish PARISH PRIESTS
Rev Thos. Costigan	1821-1859
Rev - Sheridan	1860-1865
Rev Isaac Goddard	1865-1868
Rev Jas. Aloysius Reed	1868-1870
Rev Thos. Morrisey	1870-1875
Rev W. Alexander	1875-1877
Rev - Cumberlege	1877-1878
Rev Justin Mooney	1878-1881
Rev E. D. Cahill	1881-1886
Rev Francis Dennan	1886-1896
Rev Basil Gaisford	1896-1897
Rev T. B. Scannell	1897-1905
Very Rev Mons Chas. Coote	1905-1935
Very Rev Canon Jas. Walters	1936-1943
Rev Cyril Walmsley	1943-1969
Rev Laurence Roskilly	1969-1984
Rev Roger Nesbitt	1984-

Priests who have served the Parish ASSISTANT PRIESTS
Rev J. Duggan	1877-1878
Rev Thos. Lloyd Coghlan	1889-1905
Rev Patrick Twomey	1906
Rev George Coote	1906-1911
Rev Lynch Staunton	1911-1919
Rev Stephen Rogers	1922-1939
Rev Bernard Smoker	1936-1937
Rev Francis Young	1937-1941
Rev Aubrey Fowler	1941-1946
Rev Francis Horsfield	1942-1947
Rev James Carolin	1946-1947
Rev Richard Fawssett	1947-1948
Rev Hugh Donaghy	1947-1953
Rev Terence Donovan	1948-1952
Rev William Hogg	1952-1960
Rev Ray Bryant	1953-1956
Rev Leonard Turner	1956-1962
Rev Michael Hill	1960-1964
Rev Anthony Pyle	1964-1968
Rev William Hogg	1968-1984
Rev Laurence Roskilly Fr Capener	1984-