Padre Pio Parish Glenmore Park

We are the first parish in Australia to take Padre Pio as our parish patron. We began as a Parochial district affiliated with St. Nicholas of Myra Parish at Penrith, NSW in 1994. The Glenmore Park Catholic community began the canonical process of becoming a separate parish financially and was deemed to be in a position to build a parish church, presbytery and offices in 2004.

We are the fourth such community to evolve into a new parish sprung from the loins of our parent parish, Penrith - the others being Kingswood, Emu Plains and Cranebrook. We began through the efforts of a Redemptorist Brother Br. Vin Dale who knocked on the doors of new homebuilders more than 12 years ago introducing himself and inviting the Catholics to form a Catholic Community. Br Dale’s efforts were supported by Fr. Neville Byrne a Marist priest who continued the ‘hands on’ ministry and spiritual leadership of Brother Dale, advising the people that Mass was being celebrated in the homes of other Catholics. This “Home Mass” system developed the title for the Glenmore Park Catholic Community, “The Church Below the Rooftops”.