Parish Priest

The Parish Priest is the proper Pastoral Guide of the parish entrusted to him. He exercises this pastoral care of the community entrusted to him under the authority of the Diocesan Bishop, whose Ministry of Christ the Parish Priest is called to share, so that for this community he may carry out the offices of teaching, sanctifying and ruling with the cooperation of other priests or deacons and with the assistance of lay members of Christ's faithful.
The Parish Priest becomes so through a Letter of Appointment from the local Bishop. All this is then transformed into a celebration called "Induction" during which the new Parish Priest is formally presented to the Parish in a liturgical context, and both he and the people are reminded of their respective responsibility, together, before God to serve Christ in his Church, and by their holiness and the example of their lives, individually and as a local community, to promote the mission of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Our Parish Priest is Fr. Jesmond Pawley OFM Conv. He arrived in Waterloo on the 28th of February 2008 and took up his appointment on 1st March 2008. His induction took place on the 30th of March 2008 with Bishop Paul Hendricks presiding.
Fr. Jesmond was born in Malta but he is English by birth. Born in Qormi, Malta in 1964 and baptized at St. Sebastian's Parish Church, he studied at Qormi Primary School, at St. Albert the Great College, Valletta and at St. Aloysius College, B'Kara. In 1980 he entered the Maltese Province of St. Paul the Apostle of the Order of the Friars Minor Conventual. In 1982 he started his Novitiate in Osimo, Italy and in 1983 he started his Philosophy and Theology courses at the Seraphicum, Rome, Italy, where he graduated with an SThB Degree. He continued his studies in Christology to gain an SThL, and then passed on to the Lateran University to study Canon Law, where he gained a JCL and later a JCD, specialising in Religious On-Going Formation. In the meantime he managed to gain other Diplomas. He had his Solemn Profession in 1987, was Ordained Deacon in Rome in 1988 and Priest in Malta in 1989. After having spent a year in Osimo, 8 years at the Seraphicum and two years in Torrespaccata, a parish in Rome, he returned back to Malta and for 15 years he gave his services as a Defender of the Bond in the Metropolitan Tribunals of the Island. In Malta he was in various Friaries and Parishes during which he gave lectures about the Christology of St. Paul, was the Chaplain of various Catholic Family Groups (GRUFAN) and the founder and chaplain of the Qawra Scout Group.
At present he is also giving his services: [1] as a Judge in the Southwark Metropolitan Tribunal, [2] as one of the Catholic Chaplains at Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospitals, and [3] as the Diocesan Scout Chaplain.

Fr. John Jukes OFM Conv.
[1964 - 1967]
Fr. Andrew Fraser OFM Conv.
[1967 - 1969]
Fr. Joachim Dolan OFM Conv.
[1969-1970]
Fr. Ignatius Tierney OFM Conv.
[1970 - 1973]
Fr. Robert Easthan OFM Conv.
[1973 - 1976]
Fr. Patrick Griffin OFM Conv.
[1976 - 1982]
Fr. Dominic Ellis OFM Conv.
[1982 - 1988]
Fr. Richard McKivergan OFM Conv.
[1988 - 1994]
Fr. Philip Doherty OFM Conv.
[1994 - 1997]
Fr. David Young OFM Conv.
[1997 - 2001]
Fr. Paul Clarke OFM Conv.
[2001 - 2008]
Fr. Jesmond Pawley OFM Conv.
[2008...]