St Anne's & St Joseph's RC Parish

——  Accrington • Diocese of Salford  ——

St Anne's & St Joseph's
RC Parish

—  Accrington • Diocese of Salford  —

Education Sunday 2025

Education Sunday 2025 is an opportunity to recognise and celebrate all that is good about Catholic Education in Hyndburn. This Sunday, 14th September, a member of staff from Mount Carmel will say a few words, and give out promotional information after the 9am Mass at St Joseph’s and 11am Mass at St Anne’s.

Changes to Services on Saturday

There will be no midday Mass, morning confessions or Exposition at St Anne’s on Saturday, 3rd May. The Vigil Mass at St Anne’s remains the same.

Confirmation 2025

Bishop John will be coming to St Joseph’s on Thursday, 3rd July, at 7pm to celebrate the Sacrament of Confirmation. Please keep our young people in your prayers as they prepare to receive this important Sacrament.

School Photo Display

The children from our primary school have been involved in a photography competition on the theme of ‘where do you see God in our school?’ Parishioners are invited to come and see the responses to this on Friday morning, 4th July at the school. All welcome. It is also a wonderful opportunity for parishioners to […]

School Summer Fair

FUN FOR ALL THE FAMILY· FOOD ·· STALLS · GAMES ·· ICE CREAM VAN · The PTA Summer Fair at St Anne’s & Joseph’s Primary School will take place from 11am to 2pm on Saturday, 5th July.

Wedding Anniversaries Mass

The Vicar General, Fr Peter Hopkinson, will be celebrating a special Mass at St Bernadette’s Church, Whitefield, onTuesday, 3rd June at 7pm. The Mass is for anyone celebrating a significant wedding anniversary, whether your 1st, 10th, 20th, 30th, 40th, 50th, 60th, or beyond! Married couples living in the Diocese of Salford are warmly invited to […]

St Anne’s Centenary

This year we celebrate 100 years of the opening of St Anne’s Church. It would be lovely if we could mark this event in some way. If you would like to contribute to the planning of a celebration then please come to a meeting in the Marian Room at St Anne’s on Tuesday, 6th May […]

Accessibility

Are you active in your parish; SVP; Eucharistic Minister; Reader? Do you go into the community, with the Church? What does accessibility mean to you? Think about how, a blind person, a deaf person, someone with mobility issues, or a learning disability. How can they access the Church, – or neurodiversity? How would someone with […]

Parish History

As part of our centenary celebrations Fr Francis has commissioned someone to write a history of the parish. If you have any reflections, stories or memories of former priests that could be included, please email them to lrcgregory@outlook.com or give the information to Fr Francis.

Churches

St Anne’s, Cobham Road,
Accrington, BB5 2AD.
Tel: 01254 232 920

St Joseph’s, Belgarth Road,
Accrington, BB5 6AH.

Priests

Rev Fr Francis Wadsworth (parish priest)
Rev Fr Robert Livesey (retired)

Parish Administrator

Mrs Siobhan Wood
Tel: 01254 232 920

Office Hours

Mon: 8:30am to 12:30pm
Tues, Thurs: 8:30am to 1:30pm