Our Pastoral Area – February 6, 2025
South Bucks Pastoral Area – Patron, Saint Monica
Area Dean: Rev Mgr. Provost Seán Healy
Our parish belongs to the South Bucks Pastoral Area along with the local parishes listed on the next page.
The Pastoral Area Council (PAC) is made up of clergy and lay representatives from each parish. It meets 5 times a year to communicate parish news, strengthen relationships and progress pastoral area-wide initiatives.
Bishop David writes:
‘The Pastoral Area Council is an opportunity to focus our reflection about what it means to be
a missionary disciple. The Church is an apostolic community that receives the life of the Spirit for mission.’
As a parish Bishop David asks us:
‘To be generous; in your prayer of intercession for the parish communities within your Pastoral Area,
in your seeking the way forward to encourage a communion of collaboration between these communities,
in your vision for the way forward and how we can reach out in welcome to those who are called to belong to the
Body of Christ but need our encouragement and accompaniment.’
The PAC:
- is focussed on the mission of the Church.
- is agile and open, visionary but approachable.
- is constructive and realistic, looking for and celebrating small wins.
- is made of up people who are respectful and caring, and who share a common vision.
- allows all parishes to feel they have something to contribute.
- has a clear sense of roles and responsibilities: what the PAC should be doing.
- has a clear vision with local buy in.
- has clarity around membership: who belongs and on what basis.
- members will receive appropriate formation for their roles.
- can draw on diocesan departments and agencies to support them in being ambitious for their area.
- allows for opportunities to try new things in a safe way, e.g., a PAC confirmation group where parishes don’t have enough young people to run one every year.
‘A Pastoral Area is not a set of identical units, with each
congregation having to function in the same way. As St Paul
writes, we are a body, with different skills and functions.
Because of its variety, not despite it, the Pastoral Area can be
a representation of the Body of Christ. The role of the Council,
and the Dean and Chair in particular, is to hold that tension
creatively and use it for the building of the Kingdom.’
South Bucks Pastoral Area Council – Patron, Saint Monica
The Pastoral Area Council (PAC) is made up of all clergy and lay representatives from each parish.
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Parish |
Church |
Lay Members |
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Beaconsfield: Mgr. Seán Healy Fr Kamil Stawiski Deacon Brent Adonis |
St Teresa’s Catholic Church 40 Warwick Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 2PL Telephone: 01494 673 018 Email: parish.stteresabeaconsfield@northamptondiocese.org Web: https://littleflower.co.uk/ |
Maria Cox Trish Fearn |
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Bourne End: Mgr. Seán Healy Deacon Brent Adonis |
St Dunstan’s Catholic Church Cores End Road, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, SL8 5AR Telephone: 01628 522 956 Email: parish.stdunstan@northamptondiocese.org Web: https://www.saintdunstans.co.uk/ Also serves The Bon Secours Convent located next to St. Dunstan's Church |
Jeff Wellington |
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Chalfont St Peter, Gerrards Cross: Fr Bob Davies and the Carmelite Community |
St Joseph’s Catholic Church Austenwood Common, Chalfont St Peter, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire SL9 8RY The Most Holy Name Old Mill Road, Denham, Near Uxbridge, Buckinghamshire near to UB9 5AR Telephone: 01753 886581 + Press 1 Email:Parish.StJosephGerrardsCross@northamptondiocese.org Web: https://www.stjosephs.org.uk/ Also serves: Bridgettine Convent, Fulmer Common Road, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire SL0 0NR and the Holy Cross Sisters, The Grange, Chalfont St Peter, SL9 9FL |
Joan Barham Christine Cornwell |
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Chesham: Fr Eustace Durugbo Deacon Gerard Felix |
St Columba’s Catholic Church 432 Berkhampsted Road, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, HP5 3HQ Telephone: 01494 785269 Email: parish.stcolumba@northamptondiocese.org Web: https://stcolumbas.church/ |
Lewis Canning |
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Chesham Bois: Fr Roy Karakkattu |
Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Catholic Church 30 Amersham Road, Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire, HP6 5PE Telephone: 01494 727 469 Email: parish.ourladycbstaidanlc@northamptondiocese.org Web: https://ourladyschurch-cheshambois.org/ |
Margaret van Duyvenbode Bridget Harvey |
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Great Missenden: Fr Eustace Durugbo Deacon Peter Collins |
Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church The Presbytery, 23 High Street, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, HP16 9AA Telephone: 01494 862 049 |
Tony King |
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High Wycombe: Fr Jonathan Hill Fr. Alessandro Renó Deacon Brin Dunsire |
St Augustine’s Catholic Church 24 Amersham Hill, High Wycombe HP13 6NZ Telephone 01494 523969 Email parish.staugustinehw@northamptondiocese.org Web: https://st-augustines-church.org.uk/ |
Raheel Nadeem |
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High Wycombe Parish of St John Henry Newman: Fr Jonathan Hill Deacon Paul Priestley |
St Wulstan’s Hollis Road, High Wycombe. HP13 7UN Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church Squirrel Lane, Booker, High Wycombe HP12 4RY Telephone: 01494 472526 Email: parish.stjhn@northamptondiocese.org Web: https://www.stjhnparish.org/ |
Marie Plummer |
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Little Chalfont: Fr Roy Karakkattu Deacon David Curtis |
St Aidan’s Catholic Church Finch Lane, Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, HP7 9NE Telephone: 01494 763 518 Email: parish.ourladycbstaidanlc@northamptondiocese.org Web: https://www.staidanslittlechalfont.co.uk |
Joanna Hale Peter Kirk |
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Marlow: Fr John Udris Fr Jitu James Deacon Kevin Ryan |
St Peter’s Catholic Church 7, St Peter Street Marlow SL7 1NQ Telephone: 01628 483696 Email: parish.stpetermarlow@northamptondiocese.org Web: https://st-peters-marlow.org.uk/ |
Marie Lou Stephenson |
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Schools |
Our Lady’s Primary, Amersham Rd, Amersham HP6 5PL, http://www.ourladys.bucks.sch.uk St. Michaels, Daws Hill Lane, High Wycombe HP11 1PW, http://www.stmichaels.bucks.sch.uk St Peter's Primary, Prospect Road, Marlow SL7 2PJ, http://www.stpetersschoolmarlow.org.uk St Joseph's Primary, Priory Road, Chalfont St Peter, SL9 8SB, http://www.st- josephsprimary.bucks.sch.uk St Edward's Junior, Hazell Avenue, Aylesbury HP21 7JF, http://www.stedwards.eschools.co.uk St Michael's Secondary, 3 Bierton Road, Aylesbury HP20 1EE, http://www.stmichaels.bucks.sch.uk St Louis Primary, Harris Court, Aylesbury HP20 2XZ, http://www.stlouisrccschool.co.uk |
Pastoral Area Schools Representative: Mark Holdsworth |
Executive Group: Mgr. Healy, Joanna Hale, Joan Barham (Chair), Deacon Gerard Felix, Christine Cornwell (Secretary).
‘The way the Church expresses its communion is through synodality, by meeting, listening, debating, praying, and deciding. The Spirit is always the protagonist and the Lord asks us not to be afraid when the Spirit calls us.’
Pope Francis, homily at Mass in Santa Marta Chapel on 28th April 2016.