Fr Lee Kenyon

Fr Lee Kenyon is the priest for the South Manchester Ordinariate mission. He was born in Manchester in 1978 and was educated at the University of Lancaster (BA Philosophy) and the University of Leeds (BA Theology, MA Theology). Fr Kenyon trained for the Anglican ministry at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, Yorkshire, and served in the Diocese of Blackburn before taking up the position of parish priest of St John the Evangelist, Calgary, Canada in 2009, a parish that entered into the Catholic Church in 2011, and which became one of the first parishes within the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter.

Fr Kenyon was ordained a Catholic priest in 2012, continuing to serve as parish priest of St John’s for a further five years. Before returning to life and ministry in England in 2017, Fr Kenyon also served as Dean of the Canadian Ordinariate deanery of St John the Baptist, and Episcopal Vicar for Canada.  

In addition to this Ordinariate mission Fr Kenyon also serves the five churches in the three parishes (Our Lady Queen of Peace, St Hilda & St Aidan, and Sacred Heart & St Peter) that together make up the Wythenshawe Team Ministry in the St Bonaventure Local Pastoral Area. Please visit the website for the Team here.

Fr Kenyon has been married for fifteen years to Elizabeth, an American, from Boise, Idaho, and a Classics graduate of Hillsdale College, Michigan. Together they have five children, Dominic, Felicity, Richeldis, Lucy, and Verity, and live in Northenden, a short walk from St Aidan's. 

Location and Contact

For more information on the Ordinariate in South Manchester, please contact Fr Kenyon. We can be found close to Junction 5 of the M60, opposite Wythenshawe Park. 

St Aidan's Church
Northolt Road
Northern Moor
Manchester
M23 0PJ

T: 0161.998.7359
E: manchester-south@ordinariate.org.uk