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St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Grangetown

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| location = Grangetown, Cardiff, Wales

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| attendance = ~ 500 per week

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St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in Grangetown, Cardiff, is part of the Cardiff West Deanery of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cardiff-Menevia. It opened on St Patrick's Day 1930.

History

There has been a St Patrick's Church in Grangetown since 1882, adjacent to St Patrick's School. A Memorial Hall was built in 1921. Plans were set in motion in 1928 to build a new church, on the site of allotments of two parishioners. The foundation stone was laid on St Patrick's Day 1929 and the church was opened exactly one year later.{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.stpatrickscardiff.co.uk/#!history/csac |accessdate=23 March 2013}}

Activities

  • Parish coach trips to places around Britain take place throughout the year.
  • The parish make an annual pilgrimage to Lourdes.
  • Parish Council meetings take place every quarter.

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Recent events

It has been proposed that the current parish hall in Bishop Street be demolished to make way for a new health centre to serve the whole of Grangetown.{{update after|2013|3}} It has arisen, however, that this cannot take place due to a group of bats (a protected species in Britain) that live in the roof of the hall. Designs have been made for a new hall to be built next to the church, meaning a removal of the lawn.

Due to the reorganisation of the archdiocese, St. Cuthbert's Parish in the Docks will become part of St. Patrick's.{{when|date=March 2013}}

Also, the church became part of the Cardiff Deanery instead of the Cardiff West Deanery. (The new deanery merged both the old Cardiff East and West deaneries.){{when|date=March 2013}}

Long serving priest, Father John Fahey, died on Christmas Eve in 2008. He was succeeded by Father Bogdan Wera in 2008 – who revived the church with a growing Polish community.{{cite news|last=Dodd|first=Emma|title=Cardiff church revived by Polish priest|url=http://cardiffian.jomec.co.uk/article/cardiff-church-revived-polish-priest|accessdate=23 March 2013|newspaper=The Cardiffian|date=18 February 2011}} Father Bogdan died in September 2017. The church has now been joined by Canon Michael Patrick Evans.

School

St Patrick's R C Primary School in Lucknow Street, Grangetown has close links with the church. A school mass is celebrated once a month in the church and sometimes in school during term times. The school has around 250 pupils aged 4–11 (Reception – Year 6) and around 15 teachers, as well as non-teaching staff including teachers aids and admin. The school feeds to the Catholic high school, Mary Immaculate, in Ely.

References

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External links

  • [http://www.stpatrickscardiff.co.uk Church website]
  • [http://www.stpatricksprm.cardiff.sch.uk/ School website]
  • [http://www.rcadc.co.uk/Cardiff_StPatrick.htm RCADC Church webpage]

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St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church