The Holy Name Church is a parish of the

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located in the

Jesmond Jesmond ( ) is a suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, situated north of the city centre and to the east of the Town Moor. Jesmond is considered to be one of the most affluent suburbs of Newcastle upon Tyne, with higher aver ...

suburb in

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History

On 1 December 1901, the parish was founded. The place of worship was established in a leased house at 68 Manor House Road. On 18 January 1903, a temporary iron church was opened on St George's Terrace. It served as the main chapel for almost 27 years. In 1922, a parish hall called "Osborne Hall" was built. Osborne Hall is now part of the Jesmond swimming baths. A new church was planned and construction began on 24 June 1928.

The church

By 1929, Holy Name Church, with a capacity for 400 people, was built. It is located at the junction of Mitchell Avenue and North Jesmond Avenue. It has several stained windows in different artistic styles. Behind the

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, there are four panels containing large pictures of saints. The saints in the panels are, from left to right,

St Thomas Beckett Thomas Becket (), also known as Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London and later Thomas à Becket (21 December 1119 or 1120 – 29 December 1170), served as Lord Chancellor from 1155 to 1162, and then as Archbishop of Canterbury fr ...

St Thomas More Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, theologian, and noted Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VI ...

, St Margaret Clitheroe, St Gabriel,

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St John Fisher John Fisher (c. 19 October 1469 – 22 June 1535) was an English Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Rochester from 1504 to 1535 and as chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He is honoured as a martyr and saint by the Catholic Chu ...

, and

St Cuthbert Cuthbert of Lindisfarne () ( – 20 March 687) was a saint of the early Northumbrian church in the Hiberno-Scottish mission, Celtic tradition. He was a monk, bishop and hermit, associated with the monastery, monasteries of Melrose Abbey#Histo ...

holding the head of St Oswald.

List of parish priests

Source: * 1901-1904 Fr Joseph Newsham * 1904-1950 Fr Aloysius Johnson * 1950-1971 Fr Michael Henry * 1971-1972 Fr Gerard Crumbley * 1972-1978 Bp Owen Swindlehurst * 1978-1992 Fr John White * 1992-1994 Fr Benedict Carey * 1994-2005 Fr Adrian Dixon * 2005-2013 Fr Michael Whalen * 2013–present Fr Michael Campion

Geography

The Holy Name parish belongs to the deanery of St Andrew and St Anthony, in the Episcopal area of Newcastle and North Tyneside, and is part of the

Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle The Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle () is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church, centred on St Mary's Cathedral, in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, in England. The diocese is one of the six suffragan sees in the ecclesiastical provi ...

. To the north of the parish is St Charles's parish ( South Gosforth), to the south is St Dominic's parish (

Byker Byker is a district in the east of the City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. Home to the Byker Wall estate, made famous by TV series ''Byker Grove'', By ...

), to the east is

Jesmond Dene Jesmond Dene, a public park in the east end of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, occupies the narrow steep-sided valley of a small river known as the Ouseburn, flowing south to join the River Tyne. In north-east England, such valleys are commonly ...

, and on the west with the Town Moor. Originally, Holy Name parish included the district of Benton to the east which is now St Aidan's parish. Currently, the Holy Name serves about 200 active parishioners who attend religious services mainly during the weekends.

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