The Parish of St Stephen First Martyr.
Parish Priest: Fr Gordon Abbs.
Residence and Office:
St Stephen’s Presbytery,
101 Sandy Lane, Orford, Warrington. WA2 9HS.
Tel: 01925 632849. Fax: 01925 415224.
E-mail: prshnews@yahoo.com

Welcome to the website for St Stephen’s Parish. The Parish comprises three Mass centres: St Stephen’s based in Orford and our two sisters churches: the Church of the Resurrection and of St Bridget, based in Cinnamon Brow and St Oliver Plunkett based in Birchwood.
Geographically, the Parish covers the areas of Winwick, Orford, Longford, Cinnamon Brow, Poulton, Fearnhead, Longbarn and Birchwood. For further information concerning the location of the Mass centres and times of Mass please refer to the sections “Our churches” and “Services”.

We hope that you will find our website both interesting and informative. We have designed a forum page on this website to make it easier for you to contact us. If you think that there is anything missing that would be beneficial to other users, please do let us know. If you wish, you can leave your E-mail address on this page for us to contact you, or you can click on the e-mail address on the home page. This page will also be used for topical issues and comments from all quarters, about a range of issues.

Finally, our thanks go to Ciaran McGarry and Adam Kara for setting up this website.