Firstly curate to Canon Patrick Shivers and then Parish Priest for 12 years.

Father Miley oversaw the fundraising and building of the new church. He died three years after its completion. (See his funeral pictures in the 'Archive Pictures' section.)

Born 1896 in Kilkenny, ordained 14/08/1921, served in St Patrick's, Edinburgh; St Mary's, Stirling; St Joseph's; St Patrick's, Kilsyth. Died 24/14/1955 - buried in Kilsyth.

Fr Callaghan was a visiting priest from Ireland.

Father Patrick Rourke remained as curate during this time.

Fr Basil Postlethwaite - 2000-2004 - comes from Warrington & was educated in Manchester; he joined the Benedictine Abbey at Ampleforth and was given the name Basil; he took a degree in History and Economics at Oxford. In 1981 he came to Edinburgh and worked with Fr Jock Dalrymple. He was ordained on December 3rd 1983. In August 1985 he went to St Mary's Stirling; May 1986 to St Margaret’s Gorebridge & then back to St Mary’s and Chaplain to St Mungo's. In 1989 he went to El Salvador where he became Parish priest of Dulce Nombre de Maria. In February 2000 he came back to Scotland and was appointed Parish priest of St Joseph’s.

Fr Paul Kelly - 2004-2009 I was born in England (Brighton, Sussex) in 1946, the youngest of three children, but I tend to deny being English! My father’s ancestors emigrated from the parish of Killoran in Sligo in the winter of 1879-80 to Co Durham, where my father (who died in 1971) was brought up. My mother’s family (my mother died in 1986) came from the Bridgend area of Glamorgan, where they have been forever. So that makes me a curious amalgam of Welsh, Irish and English (my father’s mother was English). I was brought up in Brighton, studied history at Oxford for six years, worked for several years in the University of London. I came to Scotland in October 1974 to work as an Assistant of Keeper of Manuscripts in the National Library of Scotland. I published some academic works. I then fell under the influence of the late Fr Jock Dalrymple and Fr Pat Fallon at St Ninian’s in Edinburgh. I studied for the priesthood in Rome (1981-85) and was ordained by the late Cardinal Gray at St Ninian’s in 1985 – Fr Basil organised the ordination! I then went to Bathgate as assistant priest, 1985-1987 and St Margaret’s, Dunfermline, 1987-92. At Dunfermline I was also chaplain to both the primary and the secondary schools, and extra-mural lecturer in philosophy at Gillis College. In 1992 I was appointed Parish Priest of the combined parishes of St Luke and St Anne, Mayfield, and St Margaret, Gorebridge. In the year 1998-99, I did further training in spiritual direction at the Institute for Spiritual Leadership in Chicago. On my return the Scottish Bishops appointed me for a five-year term as Director of Studies in the National Seminary at Scotus College, Bearsden. My sister lives in Cornwall. My brother lives partly in the south of Belgium, where he is a Professor of Language Studies, and partly in China, where he has a similar post.