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Des grew up in Warrnambool but has worked for the past 26 years in Sydney, teaching in Jesuit schools.  
Des was for several years director of formation of Jesuit novices. 
For the past 13 years he has worked with the St James Ethics Centre, which he helped found, and for the past 11 years has been superior of the Jesuit parish community at St Mary's, North Sydney. 

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desdwyer@mira.net

Assistant to Hawthorn Parish
Historian
Media Consultant

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Celso Romanin was born in Melbourne the eighth child of Giuseppe Romanin and Cesira Vendrame.  Six of their children were born in Italy.  Celso is the second to be born in Australia.

Celso grew up in Hawthorn, began his schooling with the Brigidine Sisters, then to the Marist Brothers (St John’s – now St. Joseph’s) and eventually to Xavier College.  Ferruccio, an older brother, joined the Jesuits in 1948, and Celso entered the Novitiate at Watsonia in February 1959.  He was ordained priest in December 1972 In the Immaculate Conception Church) and was assigned to the parish of Richmond in 1974, and became Parish Priest in 1977.

In 1985 he became the first coordinator of the Jesuit Refugee Service in Australia. Over the next four years he visited and worked in the refugee camps in Asia, particularly Hong Kong, established the Refugee Advice and Casework Service in Melbourne as part of a network, together with the Refugee Council of Australia, to assist refugees and asylum seekers.

After four years he returned to Parish work in Sydney, first of all in Lavender Bay/Kirribilli, and later in Neutral Bay/Kirribilli, a newly formed parish.  In 1996 he volunteered for the Jesuit Refugee Service again, this time in Uganda.  He headed a specialised team to provide education to Southern Sudanese refugees in Adjumani, Northern Uganda.  He later moved to Kampala as Country director.

He became Parish Priest at Norwood in April 1997, and served as Parish Priest until 2010 when he moved back to Hawthorn.

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