Hay, NSW - St Fergal's Catholic

Year Built: 1981

Saint: Fergal

Address: 427 Orson Street, Hay, New South Wales, 2711

Architect: Unknown

Traditional Owners: Nari Nari, Wiradjuri and Yitha Yitha people

Last Updated: 06/01/2025

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History and Architecture:

A wall plaque reads, " St Fergal's Church blessed and opened by The Most Rev D.J. Warren D.D. 1 March 1981".

Clergy:

(Compiled from the Hay Catholic Church Baptism Register. Several names have been omitted from the complete list of priests recorded. The majority of those omitted were visiting and supply priests who were in Hay for a few days or weeks, others were chaplains to the POW camp during WWII)

Years Name Annotation D.o.B D.o.D
1884 - 1886 Father M. Vaughan
1885 - 1894 Father M. J. Treacy 1938
1886 - 1891 Father R. Kiely 1906
1887 - 1887 Father W. Connolly
1888 - 1896 Father L. King
1888 - 1892 Father E. Kearney
1890 - 1890 Father E. Morrisey
1891 - 1892 Father H. Fitzgerald
1893 - 1897 Father P. Corbett 1909
1896 - 1909 Father T. O'Connell 1936
1897 - 1899 Father T. Hayden 1945
1899 - 1900 Father H. McGuinness
1901 - 1902 Father Peter Connelly
1902 - 1905 Father J. Moran
1902 - 1907 Father C. J. Griffin 19928
1909 - 1913 Father P. Shore 1918
1913 - 1915 Father J. Carroll 1908
1915 - 1916 Father P. Zundolovich 1935
1916 - 1918 Father P. Shore 1918
1918 - 1952 Father J. Carroll 1908
1921 - 1925 Father B. Timmins 1959
1938 - 1938 Father G. Solomon
1940 - 1941 Father L. McGrath
1941 - 1946 Father T. Stokes 1933
1952 - 1952 Father F. Harper
1952 - 1953 Father F. Dunne
1953 - 1954 Father E. Glancy
1954 - 1959 Father T. Stokes
1959 - 1959 Father N. Maxwell
1959 - 1966 Father J. Kelly
1967 - 1969 Father D. Kavanagh
1969 - 1970 Father W. Brennan
1970 - 1973 Father K. Colmer
1973 - 1980 Father J. Hynes
1980 - 1989 Father A. Curry
1989 - 1993 Father B. Dwyer
1993 - 1998 Father J. Tinkler
1998 - 1998 Father D. Gunn
1998 - Father P. Clark
2024 - Father Paul Newton Administrator

Organ:

No information currently available. Submissions welcomed.

Contributions:

1. 2025 Hay Historical Society for list of clergy.

Source:

1. Deceased Clergy in Australia, 1788-present.