Death of former hospital chaplain

9:00am Sunday 2nd September 2007

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FORMER chaplain at Rainhill Hospital, Reverend Michael Moran has died, aged 73.

Born in Castlebar, County Mayo, Michael grew up in St Michael's parish in Liverpool, where he attended Sacred Heart School.

He was ordained in December 1959 after training at St Joseph's College in Upholland and his first appointment was to St Marie's, Standish, before moving on to St Sylvester's and St Oswald's in Liverpool.

He transferred to the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King in 1975, before being appointed chaplain to Rainhill Hospital.

In 1983 he became parish priest at St Michael's, in Ditton, Widnes, moving seven years later to St Benedict's in Warrington.

In 1992 he became chaplain to the Lourdes Hospital, the Sisters of Notre Dame at Parbold, and to convents in Hexham and Newcastle, Brighton, and Bury St Edmunds.

In 1998 he became parish priest of Sacred Heart in Ainsdale, before retiring in 2001.

He died peacefully on Wednesday, August 22, at his home in Bognor Regis.