Fr David Barnes RIP

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The Diocese of Westminster has announced the sad news of the death in the early hours of Christmas Eve, of Fr David Barnes, Parish Priest of St Anselm and St Cecilia, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Fr David died peacefully at St John's Hospice in St John's Wood, having turned 80 years of age on 23 December.

Fr David was born on the Isle of Man on 23 December 1944. He had ministered as a priest of the Church of England before becoming a Catholic. He was ordained as a Catholic priest at Leeds Cathedral on 6 January 1976.

Condolences are extended to Fr David's family, including his sister Jennifer and nieces Angela and Joy, to his friends and colleagues and to Mgr John Conneely and the parishioners at St Anselm and St Cecilia, and parishioners elsewhere in parishes and chaplaincies in Leeds and Westminster where Fr David served.

Information about funeral arrangements, and an obituary, will be circulated in due course. Fr David was a member of the Deceased Clergy Association.

We pray for the peaceful repose of Fr David's soul:

Hear with favour our prayers,
which we humbly offer, O Lord,
for the salvation of the soul of Fr David your servant and priest,
that he, who devoted a faithful ministry to your name,
may rejoice in the perpetual company of your saints.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Amen.

May the soul of Fr David, and the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.

Amen.