- Priests & Vocations -
There was a 'Mission' at Kilsyth from 1840 -1865 and various priests served Kilsyth from the Catholic Church at Lennoxtown.
St Patrick's Kilsyth was established as a Parish of the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh on the 5th January 1865.
- Parish Priests -
Rev. John Galvin - (1865-1873)
Rev. Jeremiah Bric - (1873-1873)
Very Rev. John Canon Murphy - (1865-1889)
Very Rev. Michael Canon Turner - (1890-1903)
Right Rev. Mgr. Patrick MacNamara - (1903-1938)
Very Rev. Michael Canon Downey - (1938 - 1955)
Very Rev. Thomas Canon McGarvey - (1956-1972)
Very Rev. Denis Canon O'Connell - (1972-1987)
Very Rev. Karl Canon Kruger - (1987-1989)
Rev. Bernard Doonan - (1989-1990)
Rev. Charles Barclay (Parish Administrator) - (1990-1991)
Rev. Gerard R. Hand - (1991-2006)
Rev. James G. Tracey - (2006-2014)
Rev. Daniel Doherty - (2014-Present)
- Vocations from this Parish - Priests -
- Vocations from this Parish - Religious -
Sister Mary Rose Fitzsimmons
Sister Carmella Murphy
Brother James Murphy
Brother Edward Coyle
- Sisters of St. Andrew's Convent Kilsyth -
- Assistant Priests -
Rev. John M. Murphy (First Assistant Priest) - (1881-1885)
Rev. J. Andrew MacIntyre - (1899-1900)
Rev. Edward Blake - (1903-1915)
Rev. Daniel Murphy - (1915-1923)
Rev. James Harold - (1923-1928)
Rev. James F. Maxwell - (1928-1930)
Rev. John McGettigan - (1930-1938)
Rev. Patrick C. Lynch - (1931-1932)
Rev. Francis Kerr - (1938-1940)
Rev. Edward Gilchrist - (1939-1940)
Rev. Thomas A. Watt - (1940-1942)
Rev. Thomas McCarville - (1942-1947)
Rev. Edward McKay - (1942-1944)
Rev. John C. Barry - (1945-1946)
Rev. Francis Thomson - (1946-1948)
Rev. James Brennan (Ord. 1945) - (1947-1961)
Rev. William Anthony - (1948-1956)
Rev. Matthew Donaghue - (1956-1958)
Rev. Patrick McNulty - (1958-1961)
Rev. Gerald McCabe - (1961-1968)
Rev. Michael Bell - (1961-1972)
Rev. Andrew Shiels - (1968-1971)
Rev. Keith O'Brien - (1972-1974)
Rev. Desmond McKeever - (1973-1974)
Rev. Brian Byrne - (1974-1976)
Rev. Robert McGarrigle - (1974-1981)
Rev. Joseph Portelli - (1981-1983)
Rev. Joseph McIntyre - (1983-1985)
Rev. Thomas Mullen - (1985-1987)
Rev. George Paul - (1987-1989)
Rev. William Brennan - (1989-1990)
Rev. Steve Gilhooley - (1990-1993)
Rev. Jeremy Bath - (1993-1996)
Rev. Chris Heenan - (1996-1998)
Rev. Scott Deeley - (2004-2008)
Rev. Andrew Garden - (2013-2014)
Rev. Peter Amoah - (2018 - 2019)
Rev Sean Bradley - (2019 - 2020)
Rev William McQuillan - (2020 - present)
- Deacons & Visiting Priests -
Rev Fr Robert Doherty - (variously 1930's - 1970's)
Rev John Deighan - (2011)
Rev Fr Anthony Maroj Parbu Mariadhassan - (2013)
Rev Bernard McNulty - (2014)
Student Martin Eckash - (2017)
Rev. Patrick Harrigan - (2018)
- Our Episcopal Heirarchy
(since the founding of St. Paul's Mission in Lennoxtown) -
Vicar Apostolic - Bishop Alexander Paterson (Lowland District) - (1827-1831)
Vicar Apostolic - Bishop Andrew Carruthers (Co-adjutor - Eastern District) - (1832-1852)
Vicar Apostolic - Bishop James Gillis (Co-adjutor - Eastern District) - (1852-1864)
Vicar Apostolic - Bishop John Strain (Eastern District) - (1864-1878)
Archbishop John Strain - (1878-1883)
Archbishop William Smith - (1885-1892)
Archbishop Angus MacDonald - (1892-1900)
Archbishop James Smith - (1900-1928)
Archbishop Andrew McDonald - (1929-1950)
Gordon Joseph Cardinal Gray - (1951-1985)
Keith Patrick Cardinal O'Brien - (1985-2013)
Archbishop Leo Cushley - (2013-Present)