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    • Our Parish Vision
    • Brief history of our parish
    • Getting involved
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Holy Innocents' Catholic Church Orpington

About us

The parish  is not principally a structure, a territory, or a building, but rather, 'the family of God,  a fellowship afire with a unifying spirit', 'a familial and welcoming home', the 'community of the faithful' - Saint John Paul II
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Holy Innocents' Chapel was opened in Orpington in 1909 and Holy Innocents' became a parish in 1971. We moved down the road to our current church premises in 1981. We are privileged to have both Holy Innocents' Catholic School and a community of the Sisters of Mercy‎ in the parish. 

We belong to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark, in the Bromley Deanery; and in ecumenical terms we are a proud member of Churches Together in Orpington. 

But if we are to take seriously Saint John Paul II's description of a parish quoted‎ above, it is not these bare, institutional facts that define us as a parish. Rather, what matters most is what we are like as a family, a fellowship, a welcoming home, a community. 

We hope that you will get a good sense of that from this website, arranged as it is around the different aspects of our parish life; and that if you've not already done so, you will have the opportunity to come and experience our life and our welcome in person. 

To get you started, on these 'About us' pages, you can learn more about:

Our Parish Vision

Our parish leadership and the idea of co-responsibility 

The various ways you can get involved in our parish

The Sisters of Mercy

Our parish history


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