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Parish, Deanery & Diocese
Our parish
of Ss Alban & Stephen is in
the City of St. Albans and is one of seventeen parishes in the St Albans
deanery. It's one of two parishes serving the City of St Albans,
the other being St
Bartholomew's parish.
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The Parish With over 1,500 regular
attendances at Sunday Mass, and with five masses every Sunday
(including the Saturday vigil) in the Church, plus one at each of two mass centres,
it is one the three largest parishes in the Hertfordshire
Pastoral Area
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History
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The parish "began" in
1840, although Mass was initially celebrated at a number of makeshift
and temporary locations, including the White Hart pub!
The church as we know it today was built in 1904.
When the nave was completed the church was dedicated and
blessed by Most Rev. Francis Boume, Archbishop
of Westminster on New Year's Day
1905.
Building work carried on from time to time up until 1966,
when the side aisles were added, the Church was lengthened back
towards the railway, and the tower was added.
In 2005, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor led us in our celebration
of the centenary of that pivotal event in the history of the parish.
At the start of a new millennium the Catholic community has
become an integral part of the religious, civic and social life of St Albans.
From our small beginning we now have a splendid church,
five schools to nurture our children, an incredibly evangelistic parish, as
this website shows, and a wonderful history of Christian witness and public
service.
Many thanks to the late James Corbett, the late Malcolm
Smith, Geoff Miller and to Fr Jerry for their input into creating this online
history.
There's plenty
of information about the history of the parish on this website on our history page
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Schools
There are eight Catholic Schools (Junior,
Mixed, Infants and Secondary) in the parish, as well as the Maryland Convent.
Pastoral Council The
parish is an active one. The Parish Pastoral Council (PPC)
is made of around 12 lay people and the clergy, ad meets every month. The
PPC has links to over 50 active groups within the parish
Multicultural - we are
blessed in our parish to draw parishioners form far and wide, particularly
from Ireland, Italy, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia, and many of our ethnic
groups have their own web pages here - please do visit them. If you too are
from overseas and you'd like your own web pages, do let us know
St Albans Abbey
The main church of Ss Alban & Stephen
is only 1km from the St Albans Abbey, with whom the parish has close
links, including the weekly celebration there of Holy Mass.
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