Parish Pastoral Council

The Parish Pastoral Council is a group of dedicated lay people and priests of the parish that meet regularly to discuss the pastoral life of the parish. The members are:

Chairperson:  Maura Kelly

Members:

Fr. Barry Matthews Adm, Fr Emmanuel Fasakin MSP, Fr David Nugent, Fr James Adawai SMMM, Deacon Paul Mallon, Deacon Eunan McCreesh, Valerie McGeown, Sheila Leavy, Kathy Donnelly, Grainne Perry, Kieran Kelly, Caoimhe McKee, Paul Parks, Marie McGorman, Geraldine Turley and Colette Brannigan.

Secretary: Claire Corr

Mission statement

To support and challenge our community, in developing a more inclusive and vibrant parish, reflecting God’s message of love, faith, compassion and mercy.

As well as participating on the Parish Pastoral Council, two members participate in the Pastoral Area Resource Team (PART).

Armagh Parish is one of four parishes in the local cluster. The name of the local PART is St Patrick’s Cathedral Pastoral Area. A Pastoral Area is a cluster of neighbouring parishes that support each other and share the collaborative gifts and talents of each parish. With the help of the Holy Spirit, they do this in order to fulfil the mission of the Church, to proclaim the Word of God and further the mission of Christ in the world.

Each Pastoral Area has a priest leader who, in keeping with Church law, is called a Vicar Forane (VF). The eighteen vicars were appointed following a poll of all the priests of the diocese in which they were asked to say who they thought should be the priest leader in each of the pastoral areas. In other words, the eighteen were chosen by their peers.

The work of each pastoral area is coordinated by a pastoral area resource team. The team consists of people from each of the parishes in the pastoral area. Under the leadership of the VF, the pastoral area resource team helps to strengthen each of the parishes in the pastoral areas by:

• Ensuring the effective sharing of the collective gifts and talents of the parishes in the pastoral area.
• Identifying pastoral matters that can be done better together as a pastoral area than separately as individual parishes

Our Pastoral Area consists of

Parish of Armagh

Very Rev Barry Matthews, Adm

Address: Parochial House, 42 Abbey Street, Armagh, BT61 7DZ

Phone: (028) 3752 2802

Email: barrynmatthews@gmail.com

Parish of Keady, Derrynoose & Madden

Rev Seán O’Neill, PP

Address: Parochial House, 35 St Patrick Street, Keady, Co Armagh, BT60 3TQ

Phone: (028) 3753 1246

Email: info@keadyparish.net

Parish of Killcluney (Ballymacnab, Clady & Granemore)

Very Rev Gregory Carvill, PP

Address: Parochial House, 194 Newtownhamilton Road, Ballymacnab, Co Armagh, BT60 2QT

Phone: (028) 3753 1641

Email: cillchluanaparish@gmail.com

Parish of Middletown (Tynan)

Very Rev Seán Moore, PP

Address: Parochial House, 290 Monaghan Road, Middletown, Co Armagh, BT60 4HS

Phone: (028) 3756 8406

Email: middletowntynanparish@hotmail.co.uk