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Our Lady & St Joseph's
Catholic Church, Carlisle

Warwick Square, Carlisle, CA1 1LB

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CLERGY OF THE PARISH

 

Monsignor Canon Gregory Turner, Parish Priest 

Mgr Gregory Turner was born in Penrith in 1932. Educated at St Mary's School and Kelsick Grammar School in Ambleside and went from there to study for the priesthood at the Junior and Senior Seminary at Upholland and was ordained in Lancaster Cathedral in 1958. He served as assistant priest in parishes in Preston, Barrow, and Blackpool, and for nine years was part of the Catholic Missionary Society team in London. On returning to the diocese he was appointed as parish priest of St Mary's, Morecambe and after ten years there Bishop Brewer wanted him to be a Vicar General of the Diocese and move to Our Lady's Carlisle in 1987.

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Monsignor Canon Peter Verity, Priest

Peter Verity was born in Lancaster in 1948. He studied for the priesthood at the English College in Valladolid, Spain, for six years and in 1972 was ordained in St Joseph's, Lancaster. His first appointment was assistant priest in St John Vianney's in Blackpool, where he remained for six years. In 1978 he went to the Catholic Missionary Society in London. As well as giving parish missions he also edited the Catholic Gazette and was Director of the Catholic Enquiry Centre for four years. In 1984 he was appointed Assistant General Secretary of the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales and then became Director of the Catholic Media Office in London. After six years in this post he returned to the diocese of Lancaster in 1994 as parish priest in Cockermouth. Three years later he went as parish priest at St Anthony's in Preston where he stayed for eight years. Following a short sabbatical in north Wales he has been asked to develop a project in the diocese looking at new forms of spirituality. He has been based at Our Lady & St Joseph's since October 2006.

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Reverend Gib Harrison, Deacon
 
Gib Harrison was born in Carlisle in 1947. He is married to Margaret, and they have two daughters, Emma and Rebecca and two grandsons. Much of his adult life was spent in the Army. He joined the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in 1971, and he left the Army in 1984. Fifteen years later he was ordained Deacon at Our Lady & St Joseph's, exercising his ministry at first at Our Lady and St Wilfrid's, Warwick Bridge, but moving back to his home parish four years ago he is now one of our  parish Deacons. Gib is still in employment, so his ministry is limited to weekends and evenings. He was a musician in the Army and still uses his musical talents.


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Reverend John Constable, Deacon
John was born in Athlestane Ford Mains in East Lothian on a farm where he spent his childhood. His family moved to Penicuik where he went to school. After school he went back to the countrylife and worked on a farm for a few years until he joined the Army, serving four years in the First and Second Battalions of the Scots Guards. In the meantime his family moved to Carlisle and after John left the Army he, too, joined them in Cumbria.
In Carlisle he met Mary and they were married in Christ the King Church in 1965. They were blessed with four children, all girls, Diane and Lorraine (twins), Jeannette and Lorna, and are now the proud grandparents of five girls and five boys.
John worked for nearly thirty years with the John Lewis Partnership, based at Stead McAlpine at Cummersdale, starting out as a fork lift truck driver and ending as a shift manager. 
John, who was baptised in the Church of Scotland, became a Catholic in 1974, and in some form or other has always been active in parish life - helping with the Youth Club, serving at the altar, being a Minister of the Eucharist - just in time for Pope John Paul's visit to Manchester in 1982. After much deliberation John started training for the Permanent Diaconate in 2002 and was ordained Deacon in our church on July 6 2005.