Mgr. Canon Mark Crisp

RE & Catholic Life Director

Born in Birmingham, Mgr Crisp trained for the priesthood at the Venerable English College in Rome. Shortly before ordination, he left seminary and worked as a layman in Youth Ministry as a member of the Maltfriscan Community in Yorkshire and London for several years and then returned to Birmingham and worked as an Auxiliary Nurse at St Mary’s Hospice. He then returned to seminary and was ordained a priest in 1991. In his first years of priesthood, he worked in parishes in Coventry and was chaplain to Cardinal Wiseman Secondary School and Vocations Director for the Archdiocese of Birmingham. He became full time Vocations Director in 1998 and then in 2001, Rector of Oscott College, the seminary for the Archdiocese of Birmingham. Since 2013 has been working in Wolverhampton as chaplain to Wolverhampton University, chaplain to St Edmund’s Catholic Academy, and parish priest of SS Peter and Paul, St Michael’s and St Bernadette’s. Mgr Crisp is Dean of Wolverhampton.