The Dean, Monsignor Nicholas France, warmly welcomes you to this website and hopes you will find all the information you are looking for - amd perhaps more. 

 The Catholic Church in Jersey was restored two hundred and fifty years after the Reformation through the arrival of émigré bishops, priests and laity, escaping the French Revolution. Most memorable among them was Father Matthew de Gruchy, a convert who was later arrested in France and shot by the revolutionaries for being a Catholic priest.

The first Catholic Chapel was opened in 1804 to serve French-speaking Catholics. With the arrival of Irish workers a chapel for English-speaking Catholics was opened in 1811.

Churches and Chapels were opened across the island during the 19th century and Religious Orders founded schools and convents. Another wave of émigrés came to Jersey at the beginning of the 20th century, including large numbers of Jesuits, who were expelled from France due to anti-clerical laws, among them Teilhard de Chardin.

The Catholic Community in Jersey is very multicultural. It has been created during the past two hundred years from waves of emigrants, Irish, French, Italian, Scottish, English and Portuguese, who joined with Jersey Catholics. The Portuguese now number about ten thousand and therefore form nearly half the Catholic community, which in total makes up about a third of the population of the island. Polish migrants are the latest to join us.

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In 1993/4 a review of all Catholic pastoral activity was undertaken in the deanery. The second stage of this review took place in 2000/2001, during which a restructuring of the Deanery Pastoral Council, Catholic Pastoral Services and consolidation and amalgamation of parishes took place.

A Diocesan pastoral plan, implemented in 2006, designated Jersey as a singal pastoral area in place of the former parishes.  There is a coordinating pastor, who is  the Catholic Dean of Jersey, together with four active priests, and two deacons .