Fr Pat Browne is our parish priest at the Holy Apostles Catholic Church in Pimlico.

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, Archbishop of  Westminster, has appointed Father Pat a member of the Westminster Cathedral Chapter of Canons in October 2004. 

Father Pat has been formally installed as a Canon in Westminster Cathedral on Tuesday 7^thOctober 2004 at the 5.30pm Chapter Mass by the Cathedral Provost, Canon Michael Brockie.

The Cathedral Chapter is the Cardinal’s College of Consulters.  They meet every month at the Cathedral.  In the inter- regnum between Archbishops, the college are responsible for the running of the Diocese.

Canon Pat Browne

Father Pat was born in 1948 in Ratoath, Co Meath, Ireland. He is the eldest child of the late Jack and Lucy Browne.  He has four brothers and two sisters.

Father Pat studied for the Priesthood, at the Jesuit Apostolic School at Mungret College Limerick for one year.

He spent the next six years at All Hallows College Dublin and in 1974 was ordained for the Diocese of Westminster.  While he was at All Hallows he also studied Singing at the College of Music, Dublin, under Maura Tyrrell.

He was appointed Assistant Priest at St Edmund’s Parish, Edmonton and after three years he was transferred to Westminster Cathedral where he was Cathedral Chaplain with particular responsibility for Liturgy for the next eight years.

In 1985 he became Private Secretary to the late Cardinal Basil Hume. In 1990 he was appointed Parish Priest of Our Lady Help of Christians Parish, Kentish Town.  After eight and half years in that role he became Vocations Director and Promoter for the Diocese.

In 2001 he was appointed Parish Priest of Holy Apostles, Pimlico. He is also currently the Director of the Programme for the Permanent Diaconate