BBN / MARCH 2022
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
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Fr Colin Blayney, Dean of the North Shore Deanery
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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.
“I think I am the oldest Dean in the smallest Deanery so I am in a good position.” 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.
Fr Brian Moloney at his final Mass as the Parish Priest of the Lower North Shore Parish. 6/
“I was Parish Priest of Wyong 2000-
