AWARD OF THE GUILD FELLOWSHIP

At the end of this years National Solemn Police Requiem, our National Chaplain Fr. Barry Lomax was presented with The Catholic Police Guild Fellowship by Bishop Alan Williams. The following citation was read by the Guilds' National Chair :-

"The Guild can award its highest honour, the Guild Fellowship, to someone who has provided long and meritorious service or in some special way has enhanced the standing of the Guild.

On this occasion the award goes to someone who has served as a Police Chaplain with Greater Manchester Police since 2001 when he became a Divisional Chaplain to Oldham (Q Division).

In 2016 he became Chaplain to GMP’s Sedgley Park Training School along with Clayton Brook training facility & Hough End.

However, it’s fair to say that his Chaplaincy wasn’t just restricted to those locations and his distribution of chocolate limes has become something of a GMP institution.  Chaplaincy is for those of all faiths and of none.

Since 2013 he has been the National Chaplain to The Catholic Police Guild and his help and advice to myself, my predecessors as Chair and those many people both in the Guild and indeed not in the Guild can never be measured.

I know for certain that over the many years of service both to his home force and the Guild nationally he has offered his guidance and wise counsel and can be counted upon always to be available and to act as a ‘sounding board’ and a true confidant to all.”