St Edward the Confessor Parish is part of the Deanery of Havering, one of several deaneries in the Diocese. Priests have served Romford since 1850, following the Catholic Relief Act of 1829. The roll call of presiding priests is as follows:
| Archdiocese of Westminster | |
| 1852-1854 | Fr Alfred White (Resident at Moorfields 1852-1853) |
| 1854-1855 | Fr John Connolly |
| 1855-1870 | Fr Jean-Baptiste Colomb S.M. |
| 1870-1884 | Fr Joseph Drew |
| 1884-1885 | Fr Thomas Carey |
| 1885-1917 | Fr Henry Tilley |
| Diocese of Brentwood | |
| 1917 | Fr Henry Tilley |
| 1917-1923 | Fr Jules van Meenen (1st Parish Priest 1918) |
| 1923-1949 | Fr Thomas Bishop |
| 1949-1955 | Fr Richard Gay |
| 1954 | Fr Feargus Saurin (Administrator pro tem) |
| 1954-1979 | Mgr Matthias Kearney (Administrator 1954, Parish Priest 1955) |
| 1979-1990 | Fr John Taylor |
| 1990-1994 | Fr John Lane |
| 1994-2003 | Fr Kevin Hale |
| 2003-2020 | Fr Thomas Jordan |
| The Assistant priests who served the Church of Romford were as follows: | |
| 1922-1923 | Fr Michael Healy C.R.L. (incardinated 1923) |
| 1931-1933 | Fr Patrick Donohoe |
| 1933-1938 | Fr Bernard Hatley |
| 1938-1949 | Fr Martin Horkan |
| 1949-1952 | Fr Brian Foley * |
| 1950-1952 | Fr Patrick Anthony Murphy (Killaloe) |
| 1951-1952 | Fr Michael Hopkins |
| 1952-1954 | Fr Alfred Graham Langford (Calcutta) |
| 1953-1954 | Fr René Margry (Amiens) |
| 1954 | Fr Jean Mercier S.A.M. |
| 1954-1955 | Fr James Crowley (Armagh |
| 1955-1957 | Fr James Donnelly (Armagh) |
| 1957-1961 | Fr Francis Hastings |
| 1960-1962 | Fr Sean Sheils |
| 1962-1967 | Fr John Gordon |
| 1964-1972 | Fr Anthony Mulvihill |
| 1967-1970 | Fr Michael Stokes |
| 1970-1971 | Fr Eamonn Madden C.S.Sp. |
| 1971-1982 | Fr John Bergin |
| 1972-1973 | Fr Thomas Tuohy S.M. |
| 1982-1983 | Fr Bartholomew Lynch |
| 1984-1987 | Fr Maurice Gordon |
| 1987-1990 | Fr John Harrington (Liverpool: incardinated 1988) |
| 1990-1993 | Fr Niall Harrington |
| 1993 | Fr Thomas Jordan |
| 1993-1994 | Fr Basil Pearson (Pro Tem) |
| The following Permanent Deacon served the Church : | |
| 1990-2002 | Rev Geoffrey Piper |
Fr. Brian Foley became the Bishop of Lancaster in 1961 and remained in that office till 1985 when he retired. He died on 23rd December 1999.