Resident Priest:

Fr Paul Crowley, Parish Priest.

Fr Paul has been the Parish Priest of St Mary's Concord since January 1993.

Ordained  for the Archdiocese of Sydney in 1974, he served as an associate pastor in Stanmore, Naremburn (chaplain to the Royal North Shore Hospital) and North Ryde parishes before undertaking graduate studies at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute S. Anselmo, in Rome. After returning from Rome in 1985 he served as the Director of Liturgy for the Archdiocese of Sydney.

He was a member of the Sydney Liturgical Commission from 1985 until 2002, serving both as its executive officer (1985- 1995) and as chairman (1989-1994).

He was a member of the Australian Catholic National Liturgical Commission (1985-1997) and  a representative of the Australian Catholic Church on the Australian Consultation on Liturgy (ACOL), a national ecumenical group (1987-1996).