Fr Craig Szmidt
Parish Priest  

​Following his Ordination to the Sacred Priesthood  by Archbishop Bernard Longley on 2nd July 2011, Fr Craig spent his first five years as an assistant priest in two different parishes.  First in the parish of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Redditch and then at Saint John the Evangelist, Banbury. He also spent 2 years as an Assistant Vocations Director for the Archdiocese.  
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In August 2016, Fr Craig arrived at Our Lady of Fatima and was Inducted as Parish Priest on 20th October of that year.   Since his arrival, the parish has embarked on some extensive refurbishment work in the church.  The most recent works have seen a complete refurbishment of our Parish Hall to make it a modern and welcoming place for the parish and wider community.  

Fr Craig has various other responsibilities within the Archdiocese.  In 2018,  Fr Craig was the diocesan  priest-representative for the National Eucharistic Congress and Pilgrimage:   Adoremus   in  Liverpool.    He is currently the Pilgrimage Director for the Annual Diocesan Pilgrimage to Walsingham.

Please pray for him, and for an increase in vocations to the priesthood in our Archdiocese.