St Mary’s Pro Cathedral parish and St Francis Xavier parish on Gardiner St are to become one from Wednesday
The parish of St Francis Xavier on Upper Gardiner Street is to be subsumed into the Pro Cathedral parish. Photograph: Bryan O'Brien/THE IRISH TIMES
It followed a taking into account of “the changing pattern of the population in this area and the availability of priests to serve the needs of the archdiocese in the foreseeable future,” the Archbishop said. Meanwhile, Fr Brendan Hoban, co-founder of the Association of Catholic Priests, has said in Ireland “native priests have become as rare as hen’s teeth in that there is now a mathematical certainty that in a short number of years the only native priests left in Ireland will be in nursing homes.”
Dioceses are also merging in Ireland. Three smaller dioceses in the west of Ireland have been merged with larger neighbours due to falling priest numbers, reducing the number of Catholic dioceses there from six to three.
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