Message from the Cardinal
“I welcome everyone to the new Allen Hall website. I hope that it will help people to appreciate the valuable work of our Diocesan seminary, and the rich history of priestly formation in this country. I hope especially that it will help those thinking about priesthood to see the beauty of this vocation, and be inspired to find out more about the priesthood and the Diocese.”
Past College Presidents
| Douai |
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| 1588-1588 | William Allen | 1682-1688 | James Smith |
| 1588-1599 | Richard Barret | 1688-1714 | Edward Paston |
| 1599-1613 | Thomas Worthington | 1715-1738 | Robert Witham |
| 1613-1641 | Mathew Kelison | 1739-1750 | William Thornburgh |
| 1641-1645 | George Musket | 1750-1770 | William Green |
| 1646-1651 | William Hyde | 1770-1781 | Tichbourne Blount |
| 1652-1670 | George Leyburn | 1781-1790 | William Gibson |
| 1670-1676 | John Leyburn | 1790-1792 | Edward Kitchen |
| 1676-1682 | Francis Gage | 1792-1793 | John Daniel (ob. 1825) |
| St Edmund's, Old Hall Green |
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| 1793-1795 | John Potter (pro. tem.) | 1880-1882 | George Akers |
| 1795-1801 | Gregory Stapleton | 1882-1887 | Patrick Fenton |
| 1801-1813 | William Poynter | 1887-1892 | John Crook |
| 1813-1817 | Joseph Kimbell | 1893-1916 | Bernard Ward |
| 1817-1818 | John Bew | 1916-1918 | Edwin Burton |
| 1818-1834 | Thomas Griffiths | 1918-1932 | Edward Myers |
| 1834-1837 | Richard Newell | 1932-1946 | Francis Bickford |
| 1838-1840 | John Rolfe | 1946-1952 | John Bagshawe |
| 1840-1851 | Edward Cox | 1952-1963 | Reginald Butcher |
| 1851-1868 | William Weathers | 1963-1964 | Hubert Richards (acting) |
| 1868-1870 | Frederick Rymer | 1964-1968 | Maurice Kelleher |
| 1870-1880 | James Laird Patterson | 1968-1975 | Christopher Butler |
| Allen Hall, Chelsea |
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| 1975-1986 | Christopher Butler |
| 1986-1999 | Basil Hume |
| 2000- | Cormac Murphy-O'Connor |
