Parish Priest and Curates

Parish Priests and Curates who have served the Parish of St. Stephen’s Church and St. Nicholas Chapel of Manor Park since 1918.

Parish Priest Curates
Fr John-Victor Drabeesan 2021 – Present
Sean Connolly 2008 – 2021 Anthony Onuoha 2007
Martin Fletcher 2006 – 2008 Patrick Okoye 2006
Denis Hall 1997 – 2006 Eamonn Power 1998 – 1999
John Kennedy 1991 – 1997 Christopher Enemuo 1994 – 1995
Patrick Bennett 1984 – 1991 Paul Bhanji 1993 – 1994
Conrad Smith 1976 – 1984 James Linburgh 1988 – 1993
John Duckett 1970 – 1976 John Tuohy 1987 – 1988
Vincent Hurley 1951 – 1970 John Armitag 1985 – 1987
Daniel Harnett 1949 -1951 Colm Gallagher 1981 – 1985
Francis Heenan 1947 – 1949 John (Jack) Clifford 1971 – 1980
JOHN CARMEL HEENAN
(Later Cardinal)
1937 – 1947 Peter Glancy M.H.M. 1971
John Sloane 1928 – 1937 Patrick Taylor 1967 – 1971
Augustine Davidson 1918-1928 Terrance Higgins 1966 – 1967
Brendan Sheppard 1964 – 1966
John McCarten 1962
Donal Sweeney 1961 – 1964
Vincent Darragh 1960 – 1961
Gordon Godfrey 1958 – 1960
John Harden 1954 – 1958
William Sheridan S.S.C. 1952 – 1954
Francis Wilson 1951 – 1952
Bernard Cunningham 1951
Philip Finnegan S.S.C. 1949 – 1951
Daniel Shanahan 1947 – 1948
Bernard Manning 1946 – 1947
Eric Goldingay 1944 – 1946
William Evers 1941 – 1944
James Reilly 1939 – 1940
Patrick Donohoe 1939
John Hibbert 1933 – 1939
Peter Gargan 1931 – 1933
Charles McGoven 1928 – 1931
Myles O’Reilly 1927 – 1928
Timothy Keany 1926 – 1927
James O’Reilly 1922 – 1926
Arthur McMahon 1920 – 1922
Victor Albert Kesteloot 1919 – 1920
Thomas Smith 1918 -1919