List of Priests
The following priests have served at Shaftesbury:
2016 - present Fr John Rice
2007 - 2016 Fr Dylan James
2006 - 2007 Fr Ciaran McGuinness
2000 - 2006 Fr Brian Reeves
1999 - 2000 Fr Gilmour McDermott
1947 - 1999 Fr Ernest Jeanneau MBE
1946 - 1947 Fr Mollé
1928 - 1946 Fr George Donzé
1912 - 1928 Mgr Edwin Philip Harcourt
1898 - 1912* Father Jerome Boutin, Father René Roger, Father Pierre Sivienne, Father Paul Chapleau
1895 - 1898* Fathers Féron, Rouviere, Baron, Beaud, Ward, Dodard & Grillet and local boy, Father Cross.
* The history of this period is somewhat unclear. It appears that all six priests were involved in the running of the parish during this period but it is not clear whether they rotated the duties while living in Shaftesbury (and escaping persecution in France) or whether they were 'rotated' between Shaftesbury and En-Calcat in France. It is even unclear as to whether they were members of FMI or Benedictines or neither.