Tag: Ordinations

Six months after becoming a deacon, Tai Pham will be ordained as a priest at St Mary’s Cathedral at 10.30am on 31 May. Deacon Pham, a Vietnamese national, arrived in Australia in 2018 after discerning that God wanted him to carry out his ministry overseas. He says he wishes to serve people as a priest and follow “after the heart of Christ."

Sydney Bishop-Elect Tony Percy hopes his ordination to the episcopate at St Mary’s Cathedral on 2 May will be a special occasion for the church and confirmation for all present of the nearness of God to his people.

In a momentous event for the Maronite Catholic Church in Australia, Deacons Ghassan-Hanna Nakhoul and Sayed Youssef Issac were ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Antoine-Charbel Tarabay at Our Lady of Lebanon Co-Cathedral in Harris Park on 1 February.

The Church in Sydney has been blessed with two new priests after Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP ordained Luis Alejandro Giraldo Alvarez and Nonie Tiburan at St Mary’s Cathedral on 30 November.

Growing up in India, a young Vijay Thomas dreamed of following in St John Paul II’s footsteps. If his journey takes him all the way to the top, the recently-ordained MGL priest’s journey will have started at St Declan’s Penshurst, writes Terrie Yule.

Born in Vietnam, Fr Hien has become an adopted son of the Diocese of Broken Bay and his ordination drew around 500 from across the state and beyond, including his grandma, while the rest of his family in Vietnam watched via livestream.

This spring Deacon Tom Hosty and his son Liam made history, becoming the first father and son to both be deacons at the same time in the 190-year history of the Catholic Church in central and southern Indiana.

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St Mary's Cathedral was uplifted by rousing guitar ballads and lots of joy for the ordination of two missionary priests of the Neocatechumenal Way

Did you know that we’ve ordained nearly 1500 priests in Australia in the last 50 years? I didn’t know this until I got an email from Jamie Wright, a journalist at The Australian.

  If I am being honest, the saddest thing for me about the Plenary Council was the way it appeared in parts to be apologetic...

Next Saturday, five Sydney men will be ordained as diocesan priests at St Mary’s Cathedral. Find out who they are and what led them to their vocation.