Toukley’s Fr Tomy becomes an Australian citizen

Father Tomy Kuruvelil has become his citizenship eight years after first arriving in the Diocese.

In a ceremony in Gosford on Tuesday, 6 June 2023, Fr Tomy was welcomed as an Australian citizen, supported by fellow Toukley-Lake Munmorah Parish priests Fr Baby Thomas and Fr Joshi Naduppura.

Fr Tomy was ordained to the priesthood on 9 January 2003 at Sacred Heart Church, Chalil in Kerala, India by Bishop Thomas Chackyath and has served at multiple parishes within the Diocese in the short time he has been here.

He came to the Diocese of Broken Bay in 2015, serving briefly in Kincumber Parish before being appointed assistant priest at Lower North Shore Parish. During this time, he also served as a chaplain for Royal North Shore Hospital.

In June 2019, he was appointed administrator of the Toukley-Lake Munmorah Parish where he has served ever since.

Fr Tomy is a priest for the Congregation of the Sons of the Immaculate Conception, a religious congregation committed to witnessing Christ through the care of the sick, education of the needy youth and care of the abandoned.

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