Father Andrew Cole – Parish Priest
parishpriest@holytrinitygci.uk
I was born and brought up in Milford Haven, in Pembrokeshire. I read theology at the University of Birmingham, after which I worked as warden of Newman House, the University’s Catholic chaplaincy, for a year before training for the priesthood in the Venerable English College in Rome, where I studied philosophy and theology in the Pontifical Gregorian University.
I was ordained deacon on 12th July 2000 in the Church of Our Lady of the Snows, in Albano, just south of Rome, and to the priesthood on 4th August 2001 in St Joseph’s Cathedral, Swansea. My first years in ministry were in the Diocese of Menevia, in south-west Wales, where I worked in Swansea, Llanelli and Aberystwyth. I returned to Rome in September 2005 to study canon law in the Gregorian, this time living in the Pontifical Beda College, just over the road from the Basilica of St Paul outside the Walls, where my favourite Apostle, St Paul, is reputedly buried.
In September 2010, I came to the Diocese of Nottingham, and in 2011 I was appointed Catholic Chaplain to the University of Nottingham and Private Secretary to the Bishop of Nottingham. On 11th January 2017, I was appointed parish priest of the Parish of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity, Grimsby, Cleethorpes and Immingham, and I’m privileged to be parish priest of our large, diverse & wonderful parish.
In my spare time, I enjoy walking along the prom at Cleethorpes, Strictly Come Dancing, films, music, current affairs, going to the gym, riding one of my two bikes & visiting Britain’s national heritage.
