Fr Eugene Stockton

Hundreds of family, friends, clergy and parishioners gathered to farewell Fr Eugene Stockton at a Mass at St Thomas Aquinas Parish, Springwood, on 14 August. The beloved Blue Mountains Hermit died peacefully on Wednesday 5 August at the age of 91....

On the 8th of March 1958, Eugene Stockton was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Norman Gilroy in the Cathedral Church and Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Mother of God, Help of Christians, more commonly known as St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney. Fr Eugene Stockton’s 60 years of priesthood have been...