ORDINATIONS
There have been six ordinations to the priesthood in the Church of Saint
Peter in Chains. Those who became priests are:
Gerald
Muir in 1954
Henry McFarlane in 1967
Peter
Magee in 1981 - Maurice Taylor's first ordination as Bishop of Galloway
John Boyce in 1997
Stephen Cochrane in 1998
Stephen
McGrattan in 2003 - Maurice Taylor's last ordination as Bishop of Galloway
Five other men born in Ardrossan have been ordained elswhere. They are:
James McCarroll in Paris,
France in 1904
Archibald
McSparran in Glasgow in 1908
Robert
McCliment in Ware, Hertfordshire, England in 1913
Patrick Smith in Redcar,
Yorkshire, England in 1970
Gerard
Magee in Westgate on Sea, Kent, England in 1986
Three other parishioners
have also been ordained. They are:
Bernard O'Brien, a parishioner
in the late 1950s, ordained in Lisbon, Portugal in 1963
Stephen
Motroni, a parishioner from 1957 to 1971, ordained in the Church
of Our Lady, Star of the Sea, Saltcoats in 1983
Edward
Traynor, a parishioner from 1968 to 1973, ordained in 1985