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The Right Reverend Mark Davies was born in Manchester on 12th May 1959 and baptised at St Richard’s Church, Longsight.
Bishop Davies was educated at St Richard’s Infant School and St Robert’s Primary School in Manchester and at Broadstone Hall County Primary School and St Anne’s High School in Stockport before beginning his training for the priesthood at Ushaw College, Durham.
Ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Thomas Holland of Salford on 11th February 1984 he served as an assistant priest at Our Lady of Grace, Prestwich, and St Mary’s, Swinton, before he was appointed private secretary to Archbishop Patrick Kelly (then Bishop of Salford) in 1988. From December 1992 until September 2003 the then Father Davies was parish priest of St. John Bosco, Manchester, and was also appointed Dean of North Manchester in 1999.
In January 2003 Bishop Terence Brain of Salford appointed the then Monsignor Davies as Vicar General of the Salford Diocese. As Vicar General he served as the parish priest of St Teresa Little Lever between 2003 and 2006, St Joseph Longsight between 2006 and 2007 and Holy Family, Wigan, between 2007 and 2009.
In December 2009 Pope Benedict XVI appointed Monsignor Davies as the Coadjutor Bishop of Shrewsbury. He was ordained Bishop on 22nd February 2010 at St Anthony’s, Wythenshawe, Manchester. On 1st October 2010 Bishop Davies became the 11th Bishop of Shrewsbury in succession to Bishop Brian Noble.
Diocesan President - Mary Dearden
Diocesan Secretary - Sheila Morrison
Diocesan Treasurer - Gill Moss
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Most Foundations have a Summer break with no meeting in August.
Sacred Heart & St Peters, Baguley, Wythenshawe meet every fortnight at 2pm in the Church Hall.
Sacred Heart & St Peters 98 Floatshall Rd, Wyth,enshawe, Manchester M23 1HP
Sacred Heart Moreton, Wirral meet every Tuesday evening in the Parish Centre at 8pm
Sacred Heart 1 Gardenside Leasowe CH46 2RR
Mass Holy Apostles and Martyrs Wallasey, Wirral afternoon group meet every fortnight at the Winter Gardens New Brighton at 2pm
Wnter Gardens 25 Atherton St, New Brighton, Wallasey CH45 2NY
St Wilfrid’s, Northwich, Cheshire meet every fortnight at 2pm at the Parish Centre
St Wilfrid’s 142 Witton St, Northwich CW9 5NP
St Anne’s Rock Ferry, Wirral meet every Wednesday evening
St Anne’s 130 Bedford Rd, Birkenhead CH42 2AS
St Peters & St Raphael’s, Stalybridge, Stockport meet first week of the month after 12.00 Mass in the Parish Centre
St Peters & St Raphael’s, 119 Brierley St, Stalybridge SK15 2ED
Holy Apostles and Martyrs Wallasey, Wirral evening group meet every Tuesday during term time after the 6.45pm Mass.
Peers Club, 69 St George's Rd, Wallasey CH45 6TU
