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.