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I wonder who wrote the intro, and when it was written.  "Parish priest" may well mean different things in Ireland and England (and your intro, for some reason, doesn't mention his most senior post, in Dublin).
For example, Father Ted is the parish priest of Craggy Island.  Father Dougal and Father Jack, while they may work in the parish (though being Father Dougal and Father Jack, they don't), are curates.  I don't know that Jesuits work in a diocesan sense at all.  Then again, I am not that familiar with the terms "select preacher" or "missioner" either, leaving me wondering again about the date and provenance of your introduction, as well as the slight cultural gap between our islands.
Mairead

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Jamie Mckendrick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Dear Mairead,
  You say
"Hopkins wasn't a parish priest.
When he died in 1889, aged 44, he was Professor of Greek and Examiner in
Classics for the Royal University of Ireland.  As a Jesuit, he was unlikely to be
a parish priest, in the Catholic sense of that term, i.e., administrator of a
parish."
 The intro to the OUP Poems claims:
"After his ordination in 1877 Hopkins served for varying periods as select
preacher, missioner, parish priest and teacher of Classics in Jesuit
establishments up and down the country - from London and Oxford to
Liverpool, Glasgow, Chesterfield and Stonyhurst."
 Now I'm not sure who to believe.
Best wishes,
Jamie