CLERICAL APPOINTMENTS 2024 - Diocese of Derry

Bishop McKeown has announced the following clerical changes for the Diocese of Derry, effective from Saturday 31st August 2024.

• Rev Seamus Kelly, PP Dungiven to be Priest-in-Residence Dungiven;
  
• Rev Declan Boland, PP Camus to be Priest-in-Residence Camus, Clonleigh and Leckpatrick;
• Rev Michael McCaughey, PP Three Patrons, to be PP Camus and PP Clonleigh and PP Leckpatrick;
• Rev Colm O'Doherty, PP Clonleigh, to be PP Moville Lower;
• Rev Gerard Sweeney, PP Leckpatrick, to be PP Dungiven;
• Rev Dermot McGirr, CC Ballinascreen and Desertmartin, to be PP Banagher;
• Rev Micheál McGavigan, Adm Banagher, to be PP Three Patrons, in addition to his existing appointments as Judicial Vicar, Director of the Diocesan Pastoral Centre and Instructor for the Armagh Inter-diocesan Marriage Tribunal;
• Rev Edward Gallagher, PP Moville Lower, to be CC Camus and CC Clonleigh and CC Leckpatrick;
• Rev Michael McCaul, CC Drumragh, to be CC Ballinascreen and Desertmartin;
• Rev Joseph Varghese, CC Dungiven, to be CC Drumragh; and
• Rev Oliver Crilly, Priest-in-Residence Urney and Castlefin, to retire.