St. Gregory's is a Roman Catholic Church within the Archdiocese of Glasgow.
The Parish of St Gregory's covers areas in the North and West of the City of Glasgow - in the districts of Wyndford/Garrioch, Garbraid/Maryhill, Ruchill, Kelvindale and Kirklee/Cleveden.
The origins of the Parish can be traced back to the building of some 1,800 houses in the Wyndford Estate – on the former grounds of Maryhill Barracks, home of the Highland Light Infantry – which required the formation of a new Parish between the two old-established Parishes, Immaculate Conception, Maryhill, and St. Charles’, Kelvinside.
Father Murphy was appointed to open this Parish on February 19th, 1965, and took up temporary residence in the Immaculate Conception Presbytery. The first task was to find somewhere to gather the new parishioners together for Holy Mass, and, through the good offices of the Education Authorities, a classroom in St. Mary’s Annexe on the Maryhill Road was rented and the famous “Oratory” was born!
The altar, vestments and other equipment came from the private Oratory of the late Archbishop Campbell, and many willing hands got all in readiness for the offering of the first Mass on St. Patrick’s Day – March 17th, 1965-in a tiny building designed to seat fifty, with a congregation far in excess of one hundred. Then permission was granted to use the Assembly Hall in Shakespeare Street Public School on Sundays. On March 28th the first public Masses were offered and the Sacrament of Baptism administered. For history, we noted that two hundred and sixty received Holy Communion and five children were baptised.
His Grace Archbishop Scanlan selected the Patron for the Parish – St. Gregory Barbarigo.
Great difficulties were being experienced in providing a house for a Presbytery. Then, at Easter, Father Hickey, Parish Priest of the neighbouring Parish of Our Lady of the Assumption, had just completed a new Presbytery and St. Gregory’s were able to acquire their old house in Bilsland Drive to serve as a temporary Presbytery for six years.
