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OUR THREE NEW DEANERIES AND DEANS
ACROSS OUR DIOCESE
Deans bring experience and shared mission to new Deanery structure
The Diocese of Broken Bay now has three Deaneries instead of five and three Deans.
Bishop Anthony Randazzo announced the restructure at the start of 2022.
The three Deans and deaneries are:
• Fr David Taylor, Dean of the Northern Beaches Deanery
• Fr Colin Blayney, Dean of the
North Shore Deanery
• Fr Brian Moloney, Dean of the
Central Coast Deanery
All three Deans are familiar faces throughout the Diocese having contributed many decades of service to the priesthood and their parishioners.
And they bring a wealth of experience, including that of the role of Dean. For Fr David Taylor there is no need for relocating. He is no stranger to the Northern Beaches having grown up there and spending much of his time in the Manly-Freshwater parish.
Ordained in 1991, Fr David was Assistant Priest at the parish between 2009 and 2015 before becoming the Parish Priest and Dean. Last year he celebrated his 30th anniversary to the priesthood.
“I think I am the oldest Dean in the smallest Deanery so I am in a good position,” he said
Fr David said he is looking forward to working with the Bishop achieving his vision of a shared ministry across parishes.
For Fr Brian Moloney it is a return to former pastures.
“I was surprised when Bishop Anthony
Fr David Taylor.
asked me to come to The Entrance and to be Dean of the Central Coast,” Fr Moloney said.
“ It is some 14 years since I have ministered in this region but I am no stranger to it as I have served here in the past for some 15 years of my now almost 39 years since ordination.
“My second parish as a priest was at Woy Woy as Assistant between 1987-1989. Later in my ministry I was Parish Priest at Toukley-Lake Munmorah between 1994-2000 and also helped to establish the new parish of Warnervale.
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ACROSS OUR DIOCESE
2003 before being the foundation Priest at Warnervale 2003-2008.”
A former Dean in the previous structure, Fr Molony is very happy to be once more “in this beautiful part of the Diocese”.
“I am happy also to work alongside Patti Beattie in the diocesan review of the Central Coast to listen to the voices of the people who live in this region and to work with Bishop Anthony and my fellow clergy and lay faithful in planning how best to be Church in 2022 and beyond. “
Last month Fr Moloney was fondly farewelled as the Parish Priest of the Lower North Shore when many parishioners from all three communities gathered at St Leonard’s church in Naremburn to thank him and wish him well.
Mass was followed by a musical celebration – a fitting tribute to
their parish priest who not only enthusiastically supported the music ministry but contributed a very useful baritone voice when required.
Fr Molony has moved to The Entrance Parish in his new role and will assume the role of Parish Priest later this year.
Fr Colin Blayney was ordained in 1984 by Bishop Patrick Murphy , two years before the Diocese of Broken Bay was created. He has served most of his priesthood in the Diocese, more recently as Parish Priest at Lindfield-Killara.
He is also not new to the role of Dean having served in previous Deanery structures covering the northern parishes.
“I am looking forward to working with all the priests in the North Shore Deanery to provide support where I can and have already started reaching out to them,” he said.
Fr Colin Blayney.
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