Priest Index
1491 - 1495 Saint John Fisher - Bishop and Martyr
From 1863 - 1889, Northallerton was served from Aiskew / Bedale
1863 - 66: Fr Lawrence McGonnell
1867 (March - September): Fr Patrick George Kennedy (Fled because of debts!)
1867 - 68: Fr Edward O'Leary (an invalid)
1868 - 69: [Vacancy, possibly filled by Fr Luke Burke from Brough Hall]
1869 - 75: Fr Lawrence McGonnell
1875 - 76[Vacancy from July '75 to Jan/Feb '76]
1876 - 1880: Fr Lawrence Schoch (a German exile)
1880 - 81: Fr Joseph Xavier Molloy (originally ordained for the West Indies though eventually a Canon of Middlesbrough)
1881 - 86: Fr James Griffin (a priest on loan from Meath who eventually stayed)
1886 - 87: Fr Richard O'Halloran (a priest on loan from Ireland)
1889 - 1904: Fr James Butler (Butler lived at Aiskew from 1889 - 91, then moved to Northallerton from 1891 - 1895 His personal journal records his intense dislike of the place! He finally moved back to Aiskew from 1895 to 1904! He was parish priest of both Aiskew and Northallerton throughout the period)
1904 - 1933: Fr Louis Tils
1933 - 1938: Fr Patrick McAniff - the church of the Sacred Heart was built & opened in this period
1938 - 1978: Fr Francis Connolly
1978 - 1984: Fr Dermot Nunnan
1984 - 2001: Fr Joseph Brennan
Assistants:-
1996 - 98: Fr Michael Sellars
1998 - 2000: Fr James Campbell SSS
20 August 2007: Fr James Blenkinsopp