The Catholic Parish of St Columba and St Theresa, Chester

Serving the Chester Community

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St Columba’s: 

Saturday 6.30pm
Sunday 11.00am
St Theresa’s: 
Saturday 5.00pm
Sunday 9.30am

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Contacts

List of Key contacts within the Parish

Use the details below to get hold of us.

Parish Priest: Fr William Damah CSSp , 01244 371660, pp@sscolumbaandtheresa.co.uk

Permanent Deacon: Rev Lawrence Hordley, 01244 342048, mobile 07960 517463,

Parish Administrator, St Columba’s: Magdalena Bukowska, 01244 624019, stcolumbaschurch2016@outlook.com

Parish Secretary, St Theresa’s: Eileen Irwin, 01244 371660, st.theresas@btinternet.com

Gift Aid Coordinator: 

For St Columba’s: Kevin Keegan, can be contacted through the Parish Office.

For St Theresa’s: Stephen Parry 01244 880284 steveparrymail@bt.com

Parish Safeguarding Representative:  Sue Hutcheson, 07964 13092 or 01244 371070 OR Jane Walsh 01244 378201

St Columba’s Parish Hall: Please book through Magdalena Bukowska, St Columba’s Church Office 01244 624019 or email stcolumbaschurch2016@outlook.com

St Theresa’s Club: Please contact this number rather than the Parish Office for the Club: 01244 373524

Choir Leader: For St Columba’s Mark Traynor, mobile  07752 317772.

Music: St Theresa’s  Ann McCarthy 07751970388 and Jane Walsh 01244 378201

Organists: Robert Green 01244 383836

Altar Servers: Richard Curtis 07787 782255

Baptisms: 

  • St. Columba’s: By appointment. After speaking to Fr. William
  • St. Theresa’s: To arrange a Baptism, please contact Fr. William.

Children’s Liturgy: For St Columba’s the children meet in the Hall for the first part of the 11.00 Sunday Mass.  For St Theresa’s we meet in the sacristy after the opening prayer. Contact: Gillian Blatch on 07739320727 

Eucharistic Ministers, Readers and Bidding Prayers Authors:  Rota organiser, For St Columba’s: Magdalena Bukowska 01244 624019. For St Theresa’s Eileen Irwin 01244 371660

Newsletter Co-ordinator & website contact: Awaiting new appointment

Catholic Women’s League: Elizabeth Wilson, 01244 346772

SVP:  Mark Traynor, 07515 491251, email: TreasurerF180402@svp.org.uk

Primary Schools:  St Werburgh and St Columba’s, Lightfoot St, Hoole, Chester CH2 3AD, 01244 981228.

St Theresa’s Primary School, Kipling Road, Blacon, Chester CH1 5UU, 01244 981070

High School: Chester Catholic High, Old Wrexham Road, Handbridge, Chester CH4 7HS, 01244  981600

Chester Hospitals Chaplaincy: 01244 364543 (answer phone available)

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Key Contacts

If  you need to get in touch with someone in the parish this is the place to start. Click this link to see our list of contacts. 

Parish Secretaries can be contacted by email at: stcolumbaschurch2016@outlook.com or st.theresas@btinternet.com

If you need to contact someone about the website, please use this email address. website.stcolumbaandtheresa@gmail.com  Please note that this email is not monitored daily.

Mass times

If you need to find the mass times for any of the churches. You can visit their respective pages. you can find all of our mass times on the services page. You can follow the link to the location you would like to attend.

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If you would like to locate the latest newsletter then please navigate to the News and Events Page.

Online Giving

For those Parishioners who normally give in the collection at Mass and wish to help our Parish at this time of restricted opening, the Online Giving page gives you a way to do this.

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