Fr. Francis Olaseni, MSP
Parish Priest
Kingston Hospital Chaplain
Fr. Peter Akor, MSP
Kingston Hospital RC Chaplain
Assistant Parish Priest
Rev. Robert Beresford
Deacon
Deacon Bob was a Methodist minister and he and his wife Jane were missionaries in Ghana from 1961. On returning to England in 1973, Bob became a Catholic and was received into the church that year, Jane the following year. He was ordained deacon in the Southwark diocese at St Matthew’s, West Norwood, by Bishop Henderson in 1982. From 1975 to 1998 he was secretary of the Bishops’ Conference Committee for International Justice and Peace. Bob and Jane moved to St Agatha’s Parish in 2003. Sadly Jane passed away in 2012.
Bob moved away from the Parish, to be nearer his family in Liverpool, in December 2023 but is still fondly remembered in the parish.
Parish Priests of St Agatha’s Church
Kingston upon Thames
Priests who are natives of St Agatha’s Parish
Rev Peter Wilkie, Ordained at St Agatha in 1953.
Canon Alexander North
Rev Patrick Rorke S.J. Born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England on 29th October 1904. “Pat” Rorke was ordained as a Jesuit priest in 1935. Died at the age of 86, 2nd September 1990.
Rev Andrew Brenninkmeyer O.S.B.
Rev Richard Harriot, born 30th October 1934, Ordained 1961, died 22nd December 2021.
Rev Malcolm Dyer F.D.P, Ordained at St Agatha.
Rev Vincent Flynn, Ordained at St Agatha.
