All Saints Parish - Roma

Roma residents were visited by our first Catholic minister (Rev Fr William McGinty) exactly 150 years ago (1854). He was part of the Sydney archdiocese and stationed at Ipswich, (which then included Lismore, Armidale, Tamworth, Warwick, Toowoomba, Drayton and Windorah). He kept in touch with his widely scattered flock by journeys undertaken either on horseback or on foot.