Our Clergy and Pastoral team

The Pastoral Team meet weekly and consists of Canon Tom,  Deacon Duncan Aitkins, Sister Maureen, Patricia Carroll and Mary Crosby working in collaborative ministry.

We reflect on how the parish is working towards fulfilling its purpose and consider policy, action and any other matters that the Parish Assembly or the Mission Team may consider for the good of all.

Members report on actions arising from previous meetings and on issues that have been communicated by parishioners or outside bodies. We also pick up matters from Parish Groups and try to respond to current situations in all areas of parish life as they arise.

The Team looks at communication and other needs to be attended to, looks at the 'way ahead', make decisions and then try to ensure that things happen.

Parish Priest, Canon Tom McHugh

Tom is Irish from Mayo and has ministered as a priest for thirty eight years. His life in ministry began in SS.Peter & Paul Mitcham, then to St. Peter's Woolwich before joining the Catholic Missionary Society (CMS). As a member of the CMS he traveled all over the country giving Missions. He was then superior of the CMS for five years where he focused on collaborative mission working with a team of priests, lay people and religious. In 1985 he went to the States and gained a Masters degree in Adult Formation from Fordham University. Then Archbishop Michael appointed him as Director to develop the Christian Education Centre (CEC) in Tooting Bec. It was while in this post that RCIA was launched in the Diocese. From 1993 Tom has been parish priest in St. Joseph's Roehampton where he built a collaborative parish team. He feels that St. Joseph must have a soft spot for him! He likes traveling, hill walking and has been known to visit an art gallery.

Curate, Father Joseph


Details to follow

Deacon Duncan

Duncan was born in India and lived in Rangoon Burma before coming to England and settling in Bromborough Merseyside. He was educated at St Anselms College Birkenhead, and moved to London in 1963 and entered the Civil Service, working in several different Government Departments. He left the Ministry of Defence in 1989. He also worked as Lecturer in Business/Management Studies, in Leisure Management, and as a Management Consultant; he is currently working as a Social Housing Manager in North West London. Married to Marian in 1968 with 3 adult daughters, and ordained a deacon in 1997. Enjoys supporting Tranmere Rovers and plays squash and his wife says he is a perpetual student! Proud to say that he was an Altar server from the age of 6, beginning at St Johns Convent Rangoon, and at many other churches including Christ the King at Bromborough, and of course St Josephs Bromley.

Mary Crosby

Born in Waterford City, Ireland Mary came to live in London when she was 10,and attended school at English Martyrs Walworth. After leaving school she worked for Westminster Bank Head Office, where she met her husband Stuart.
In 1969 she went to work in Italy for 6 months. In 1974 she moved to Bromley with Stuart, where their four children were born. In 1989 she completed the Montessori Teaching Diploma and opened her own Montessori Nursery School.

In 1987 she became actively involved in Parish Life, first with the monthly Family Mass, then as a founder member of the Children’s Liturgy Group. From this period onwards she has been involved in Parish Sacramental Preparation. From 1992 to 1994 she completed The Catholic Certificate in Religious Studies.
At the invitation of Canon Patrick, Mary joined the Pastoral Team in December 2005.

Her free time is spent with family and friends. She enjoys the theatre, swimming, reading and travel.

Patricia Carroll

Patricia is Scottish from Motherwell, and currently coordinates the formation of lay people for parish ministry at the CEC on Wednesdays and Thursdays. She has been committed to adult formation for twenty years, first in the Archdiocese of Edinburgh, then in the dual parish of St. Andrews and St. Teresa's Dumfries - introducing the RCIA and RENEW.  In 1987 she joined the Cistercian monastic community of St. Mary's Abbey, Glencairn. After initial formation she taught novices and young monks and nuns from Cistercian houses around the world. Patricia returned to Scotland in 1997 as pastoral assistant in Gilmerton, Edinburgh and chaplain to Roslyn Lee Psychiatric Hospital. Patricia holds a Bachelors Degree in Theology from St. Andrews, a Diploma in Pastoral Theology from Cambridge and a Masters in Christian Spirituality from Heythrop. She also trained in Spiritual Direction. She is an organist who at one time played seven times a day! She enjoys jazz, films, all things Italian and like golden retrievers!