Parish Priest
Parochial Administrator: Fr Louis Charuvila Pappy
Fr. Louis Charuvila Pappy was born in Kerala, India 1974. He was ordained priest on 30th December 1999 at St. Thomas Cathedral Bathery, Kerala, after completing his priestly training from the St. Mary’s Malankara Seminary, Trivandrum, Kerala, India. Fr Louis holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science from the University of Calicut in Kerala, a Master’s Degree in Theology from the Catholic University in Belgium and a Doctorate in Theology from Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome.
Fr. Louis served as the Parish Priest of different parishes in the Major Archdiocese of Trivandrum, Diocese of Bathery in Kerala, and the Diocese of Rockville Centre in United States. Prior to his new assignments in the United Kingdom, he was the Resident Professor and Finance Officer of St. Mary’s Malankara Seminary. He served as the Pastoral Co-Ordinator of Europe for the Malankara Catholic faithful residing outside India. In addition to this, he served as the Secretary to the Bishop, Chancellor, Finance Officer of the Institutions, and Executive Director of the Diocesan Social Apostolate. Fr. Louis is the Chaplin of the Syro –Malankara Catholic Missions of Manchester, Sheffield, and Liverpool of the Malankara Catholic Church in United Kingdom. In September 2022, Fr Louis was also appointed Parochial Administrator of St Chad’s Cheadle and St Ann’s Cheadle Hulme in the Diocese of Shrewsbury. From September 2024, Fr Louis also became Parochial Administrator of Christ Church and now looks after all the three parishes in our Local Missionary Area.
Assistant Priest
In March 2024, Fr Samuel Vilayil was appointed as the Assistant parish priest of St Ann’s, St Chad’s and Christ Church in addition to his responsibilities for the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church in Sheffield, Liverpool and Blackpool. Fr Samuel (also known as Fr Libu) belongs to the Archdiocese of Tiruvalla of the Syro Malankara Catholic Church. He is also from Kerala, India. Born in 1985, he completed his priestly training from the Papal Seminary in Pune. He was ordained in 2014 for the Archdiocese of Thiruvalla. He holds a Master of Arts Degree in Sociology and a Master’s degree in Management Studies. he was the manager of of a reputed Management College in Kerala and was the director of the social service department of the Archdiocese, and also served as the parish priest of different parishes.
Previous Parish Priests
- Father Peter Lancelot Pears 1928 – 1938
- Father (later Canon) Joseph Howe 1938 – 1952
- Father Bernard Houghton 1952 – 1981
- Father (later Canon) Peter Morgan 1981 – 1984
- Father Jim Robinson 1984 – 1988
- Father Frank Rice 1988 – 1997
- Father Danny Canning 1997 – 2006
- Canon John Gordon 2006 – 2019
- Father Sean Davidson 2020-2022