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Father Tom Fenlon, SMA, died peacefully on 23 January 2025 at the age of 79. He served in the Diocese of East Anglia for sixteen years and is fondly remembered by the parish communities he ministered to.
Born in Ireland in 1945, Thomas Fenlon joined the Society of African Missions (SMA) at the age of eighteen and was ordained to the priesthood in 1968. He spent two periods of missionary service in Nigeria, ministering in the Archdiocese of Kaduna between 1969 and 1981. During this time, he also undertook nursing training at Walton Hospital in Liverpool.
Due to ill health, Father Tom returned to Ireland in 1982 for a period of recuperation. He later served as chaplain at the Central Middlesex Hospital in London before coming to the Diocese of East Anglia in 1992. Here, he served at St James’s Parish in Ipswich and, from 2002 until his retirement in 2008, he was parish priest of Woodbridge with Framlingham. He is warmly remembered by parishioners in Ipswich, Woodbridge, and Framlingham for his pastoral care and faithful service.
After retiring to Ireland, Father Tom lived first in Galway and, as his health declined, in Cork. In 2021, he became a resident at St Theresa’s Nursing Unit of the Society of African Missions in Blackrock, Cork, where he passed away peacefully.
May he rest in peace.
