 Fr Anthony (Tony) Cox after ordination was appointed to Japan where he ministered in several parishes for 18 years. He served as the Columban District Superior in the area of Wakayama and as Dean and Vicar in the Diocese. In 1996 he became Manager of The Far East Office and Manager of the Essendon House in Australia. He engaged in Vocations Ministry for a number of years. Fr Tony has worked as the parish priest of Boronia and as Chaplain to Stella Maris and to the Catholic Colleges of Mt St Joseph’s and Penola in Melbourne. |
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 Fr Bernard (Bernie) Lane attended St Vincent’s Parish and school, Strathmore and it was in that Church that he was ordained. Appointed to Peru, Fr Bernie headed first to the Maryknoll Language Institute at Cochabamba, Bolivia. He worked in a number of parishes in Lima and later as the Rector of the Columban Formation Programme there. After a period of Columban Promotion and School Chaplaincy work back in Melbourne, Fr Bernie returned to Lima where he is currently the Central House Administrator and energetic patron of the Manuel Duato special needs school.
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 Fr Paul McCartin hails from Ballarat where he was ordained. An appointment to Japan followed. An involvement with the teaching of English language to Japanese students followed and then some further studies in Religious Education at the University of South Australia. In 1998 Fr Paul was appointed the Columban Justice and Peace Coordinator for Japan and in recent times has provided significant reports of the devastation caused by the Fukushima nuclear disaster. |
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 Fr Patrick McInerney was appointed to the first group of Columban missionaries in Pakistan. In 1983 he studied Arabic and Islamics in Rome where he received a licentiate in 1986. Back in Lahore, he became the local Columban bursar and a pastor in the parish of Shadbagh. After six years he was appointed to the ANZ Region which led to doctoral studies at ACU. He was Director of the Columban Mission Institute until its closure in 2017 and is now the Coordinator of the Columban Centre for Christian-Muslim Relations based in Blacktown, Diocese of Parramatta.
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 Fr Kevin Mullins after ordination was appointed to Chile and pastoral ministry in Santiago after language studies in Bolivia. In 1990 Fr Kevin was part of a new team mission to the Mapuche people which involved more language study. This was followed by a period of Columban Mission Promotion in the United Kingdom. From 2001 until recently Fr Kevin was the pastor of the parish of Corpus Christi in the volatile city of Juarez, Mexico, just over the border from El Paso, Texas. |