Welcome to the Banbury & Warwick Deanery website
On this site you will find contact details and links to websites, where they exist, for all the Catholic Parishes in the Deanery, together with Sunday Mass Times, and details of our Catholic Schools. Our website brings together the resources of the Deanery and provides information about Deanery wide activity. The Banbury and Warwick Deanery is one of eleven Deaneries which make up the Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham, and covers a large area stretching from the Cotswolds over to Rugby.
The Deanery parishes are grouped into four clusters known as follows:
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- Leamington: Kenilworth & Warwick: Leamington, Lillington, Kenilworth, Whitnash, Warwick, Hampton on the Hill, Baddesley Clinton.
- Rugby: Rugby, Bilton, Hillmorton, Southam, Wappenbury.
- Bicester and Banbury: Bicester, Hethe, Banbury, Chipping Norton, Charlbury.
- Stratford-upon-Avon: Stratford-upon-Avon, Wooton Wawen, Kineton, Shipston, Brailes.
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In each of these clusters clergy and lay people are meeting a few times each year to share ideas and insights and simply get to know each others parishes better, so that when any decisions about changes in the future are being made people will know and trust each other to work together for the Common Good.
The members of the local groups also together make up our Deanery Forum (meeting pictured at the top) where we can find ways to share good practice and resources as we work to implement the Diocesan Vision.
Fr David Hartley, parish priest of Whitnash, is the Dean of the Banbury & Warwick Deanery.
Fr David will be Installed as a Canon at St Chad’s Cathedral, Tues 3rd June 12.15pm.
Map of the Churches in Deanery
Live Streaming in Banbury & Warwick Deanery
St John the Evangelist (Banbury) link, St Joseph the Worker (Banbury) link, Immaculate Conception (Bicester) link, Sacred Heart (Bilton) link, English Martyrs (Hillmorton) link,cban210724 St Peters ( Leamington Spa) link, St Joseph (Monks Kirby) link, St Maries (Rugby) link , St Gregory the Great (Stratford upon Avon) link, St Mary Immaculate (Warwick) link, St Joseph’s (Whitnash) link
Newsletters
30 March: St Francis of Assisi (Baddersley Clinton) sfa300325, Banbury Catholic Churches cban300325, Blessed Robert Grissold (Balsall Common) brgt300325, Immaculate Conception (Bicester) and Holy Trinity (Hethe) ic300325, Sacred Heart (Bilton) & English Martyrs (Hillmorton) shem300325, St Teresa’s (Charlbury) st300325, Holy Trinity Catholic Church (Chipping Norton) ht300325, Ss Francis & Augustine (Kenilworth) ck300325, Catholic Leamington (St Peter Apostle with Our Lady’s) cl300325, St Joseph’s (Monks Kirby) sjmk300325, St. Marie’s (Rugby) , Catholic Parishes of Our Lady and the Apostles (Shipston) & Ss Peter and Paul (Brailes) and St Francis of Assisi (Kineton) cbrailes300325, Our Lady and St Wulstan (Southam) olswt300325, St Gregory the Great (Stratford upon Avon) 30 March, St Anne’s & Our Lady of Angel’s (Wappenbury) sa300325, St Mary Immaculate with St Charles Borromeo (Warwick) smw300325, St Joseph (Whitnash) sjwhit300325, Our Lady and St Benedict (Wooton Wawen) olsb300325.
Older Newsletters link Sunday Mass times link
Leamington cluster/Mission newsletter 2025 April.
Deanery Day Pilgrimage to Littlemore, Oxford – Saturday 22 March link
Rite of Election – Sunday 9 March 2025
In this season of Lent we pray for all the catechumens of our diocese preparing to be Baptised and the candidates for Reception into Full Communion. Some of our parishes were represented at the Rite of Election at St Chad’s on Sunday 9th March, where the Bishops welcomed the 200 or so known to be joining the Church, Fr David.
Clergy Deanery Meeting – Tuesday 11 March 2025
The clergy of our Deanery met with Bishop Richard for a full agenda at Hampton on the Hill this month. We had plenty to talk about with Bishop Richard including the request from our diocese to think ahead a few years about which buildings we will need in the medium term as less Masses can be celebrated by fewer clergy. Pray for your priests and deacons, and for more to follow in our footsteps!
March is our Deanery Month of Prayer for Vocations
(The above photo is the Priestly Ordination of Fr David Bench, 20 July 2024)
Diocesan Prayer for Vocations
Heavenly Father, we ask you to send labourers into your harvest.
Inspire, in the hearts of your people, vocations to the priesthood, diaconate and religious life.
Bless our families with a spirit of generosity, so that those whom you call have the courage to give themselves to your Church in faith.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Deanery Pastoral Council link
Resources for the Jubilee Year 2025 link
Archdiocese of Birmingham
News: link , Website link, e-newsletter sign up link
Warwick Hospital Catholic Chaplaincy
Fr David Hartley is the Catholic Chaplain for the hospital. Local priests provide support and emergency cover. If you are in hospital and wish to see a Catholic priest, please ask as patient confidentiality rules mean that priests will not be automatically told about you.
Going into Hospital
If you or a relative are going into hospital, please be sure to tell the ward staff you are a Catholic and would like to see the Catholic Chaplain. It’s also helpful to notify the Parish Clergy, so a visit, either by them or the Chaplain can be arranged. For information on Warwick Hospital please visit https://www.swft.nhs.uk/our-hospitals/warwick-hospital/chaplains-spiritual-and-religious-support. The Catholic Chaplain can be contacted via chaplaincy@swft.nhs.uk
The Church’s in the Banbury & Warwick Catholic Deanery are part of the Archdiocese of Birmingham, Registered Charity No. 234216. This website provides Catholic news, and information.