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