60th Anniverary – The Parish History

60th Anniversary

As part of our parish 60th anniversary celebrations Peter Carroll has put together a historical overview of the parish. This 19 page document can be downloaded as pdf.

It contains the following short chapters

  • Our Patron Saint John Fisher (1469-1535)
  • Historical Context of Catholicism within Coventry
  • A Timeline of the development of Catholic Parishes in Coventry
  • A time before the formation of St. John Fisher Parish
  • A Timeline of St. Fisher Parish Priests
  • Formation of St. John Fisher’s Parish
  • The Founding Father – Fr. Benedict Tarbuck
  • A brief interlude – Fr. Seamus Gilroy
  • The Sky-Blue Era – Fr. Bob Wright “One of own”
  • From COVID a return to normality – Fr. Des Deveney
  • A New Era – Rev. Dr Sebastian Namattathi