Parish Staff

History of Priests at Our Lady of Mount Carmel

The Marriage Registers of Mount Carmel date from 1866 and the Baptismal Registers back to 1870. A survey of these registers show the names of priests who have worked in the parish:

Fr Cornish OSB as PP of Broadway became first PP of Waterloo 1856 - 1864

Fr Garavel, PP of Newtown, and PP Waterloo 1864 – 1866

Fr Peter O'Farrell OFM, 1st resident priest, 1866 - 1869

Fr Athy OSB 1870 – 1872

Fr Cunningham 1873 – 1878

Fr J Carroll 1878 - 1881

Fr Placid Quirk OSB 1881 – 1882

Fr Joseph Collins 1882 – 1926

Fr McKerian 1884 – 1885

Fr T Long 1884 – 1885

Fr E Hanrahan 1885 – 1886

Fr J Hackett 1887 – 1889

Fr M Morrissey 1887 – 1889

Fr T Ryan 1889 – 1890

Fr T W Keating 1890 – 1895

Fr F McDermott 1895 – 1898

Fr W Flemming 1898 – 1900

Fr J P Hyland 1900 – 1901

Fr John Sherin 1901 – 1903

Fr J H Morris 1901 – 1903

Fr D J Byrne 1904 – 1905

Fr A J Hogan 1905 – 1908

Fr A J McHugh 1908 – 1909

Fr J J Egan 1908

Fr J Fitzpatrick 1909 – 1911

Fr P J O'Connell 1911 – 1917

Fr B A Comaskey 1912 – 1913

Fr T A Maloney 1914 – 1915

Fr T J O'Farrell 1915 – 1916

Fr W J Gear 1916 – 1923

Fr William P McNally 1917 – 1922

Fr Eris M O'Brien 1922

Fr Lawrence Corridon 1923 – 1926

Fr Chas. Foley 1923 – 1926

Fr Jeremiah O'Flaherty 1925 – 1931

Fr Patrick J Whelan 1926 – 1927

Fr John Phelan 1926 – 1929

Fr B McDonnell 1927 – 1933

Fr W Heffernan 1929 – 1933

Fr C Donovan 1930 – 1931

Fr W E Fitzgerald 1931 – 1934

Fr J Bowers 1933 – 1941

Fr E T Downey 1933 – 1947

Fr J M Evans 1934 – 1939

Fr F Reilly 1938 – 1940

Fr J Fitzpatrick 1939 – 1941

Fr P J Kennedy 1940 – 1944

Fr John Ross 1941

Fr P J Reeve 1941

Fr John Kissane 1941 – 1957

Fr W Canavan 1941 – 1943

Fr J P Croal 1944 – 1946

Fr P L Murphy 1944 – 1945

Fr L Mahon 1945 – 1948

Fr J Kerrisk 1946 – 1948

Fr J Cullen 1947

Fr K Prunty 1948 – 1951

Fr J Gaffney 1951 – 1953

Fr W Paine 1951 – 1953

Fr Ashley Jones 1953 – 1956

Fr W O'Connor 1953 – 1957

Fr W Malone 1956 – 1965

Fr M O'Byrne 1957 – 1960

Fr P Coffey 1960 – 1963

Fr A Nelson 1963 – 1966

Fr E G Paine 1965 – 1974

Fr J Butcher 1967 – 1968

Fr K Muldoon (Supply) 1972 – 1974

Fr V J Doyle 1974 – 2000

Fr John Knight 2000 – 2009

Mgr G K Flynn 2009 –

Fr Michael Yoo (on loan from Seoul, South Korea) 2012 - 2012