Parish Clergy

The parish of Thornbury assigned to the Salvatorians by various Bishops of the diocese of Clifton covered approximately 130 sq miles and stretched from Berkeley in the north to Almondsbury in the south and from Aust in the west to Wotton-under-Edge in the east.

Over the first 30 or so years of the development of the parish, several Salvatorian priests were assigned to Thornbury for differing periods of time. It is difficult from the available church records to determine precise dates of arrivals and departures as some seemed to have been temporarily assigned to other parishes in the diocese and elsewhere. In a text of a talk given 25 years after the opening of the church, the author referred to 11 parish priests and another 45 priests having served in Thornbury. It has not been possible to verify those figures but clearly several Salvatorians spent some time in the parish and the names and dates below are the best estimates of who was here and when.

Updated 12 April 2022