FATHER STEPHEN COCHRANE
Stephen
James Cochrane was born in Irvine, Ayrshire in 1970. His secondary education was
at Saint Andrews Academy, Saltcoats. He studied at the University of Glasgow
where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree. While preparing for the
priesthood at Chesters (later Scotus) College , Bearsden, Glasgow, he took the
degrees of Master of Arts from the University of Glasgow and Baccalaureate in
Divinity from the Pontifical University of Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland.
He was ordained to the priesthood by Maurice Taylor, Bishop of Galloway in the
Church of Saint Peter in Chains, Ardrossan on 23 June 1998. His first appointments
were as assistant priest at Saint Pauls Church, Ayr and Saint Francis Xavier's
Church, Waterside. He was Parish Priest of Saint Joseph's Church, Stranraer from
2000 to 23 November 2004. He moved to Eccleshall, Staffordshire to cofound a
new religious community called The
Brotherhood of the Holy Cross in Eccleshall, Staffordshire in the Archdiocese
of Birmingham, England. In this community, laity, clergy and religious
people are brought within one house to follow the core teaching and tradition
of the Church and answer the call to universal holiness.
In October 2005, Father Stephen was appointed Parish Priest of the nearby Church
of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Eccleshall. Since
September 2007, he has been the Visiting Priest Chaplain to Keele University.