At last, after a lifetime as a priest, Mons Tony has his own parish

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22 August 2004

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At last, after a lifetime as a priest, Mons Tony has his own parish

Mons Tony Doherty cuts the congratulatory cake at the Cathedral House function.

Mons Tony Doherty has been a priest for more than 40 years, but – as he told wellwishers at Cathedral House last week – “I’ve never been a parish priest”.

The second son of Arthur Lindsay and Aileen Mary Doherty, of Tambourine Bay Rd, Lane Cove, he was educated at St Michael’s Convent, Lane Cove, and at St Ignatius’ College, Riverview.

Tony worked first at BHP and then at John Bruton Iron and Steel before entering St Columba’s College, Springwood, in 1956. He was ordained in 1963.

It was the year in which he was to serve his first Mass – in his home parish, Lane Cove, on Sunday, July 21 – and begin his work as a priest in the parish of Naremburn.

He then moved to Haberfield, from where he joined the staff of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (CCD) in 1967.

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