Why did the Parish Start:

(Source: Solemn Opening Souvenir Brochure)

Between St. Mary's Abercrombie Street, Calton, established in 1842, and St. Patrick's in Coatbridge, established in 1845, there was no church until St. Paul's was built in 1850. It would appear that the first church was two railway huts in Gartocher Road. Then a sandstone church was erected in Shettleston Road in 1857. The east end of the city was served by the priests of St. Mary's from 1842 to 1846, then from St. Alphonsus' until 1850, when the new mission was started by Fr. Patrick McLauglin at Eastmuir, Shettleston.

The mission was very much scattered with mostly cross - country roads, from Eastmuir to the banks of the Clyde (south) and to the other side of the Monkland Canal(north). Since 1857 when the second St. Paul's was built to supply the needs of the two to three thousand Catholics who were scattered over a large area and employed in the bleach fields, print works, iron foundries and other industries, numerous other churches and new missions have been erected in the east end of the city.

Cardinal Winnings Letter to Parishoners on the 40th Anniversary of the New Church June 1999

Archbishop Campbell's Letter for Opening of New Church

Parish Clergy 1857 - 1959

(Including History of the Priest, when available)