The Parish Priest of St Simon's is Fr Willy Slavin who is also chaplain at Yorkhill NHS Trust which includes the Royal Hospital for Sick Children and the Queen Mother's Maternity.

In urgent cases he can be contacted through the switchboard 0141 201 0000.

Fr Slavin was ordained in the Scots College in Rome in 1964 and served in Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Broomhill and St Michael's, Parkhead before going to Bangladesh for 5 years in 1975.

On his return he served 10 years as chaplain in Barlinnie Prison during which time he helped set up the Scottish Drugs Forum to deal with the problems which were then becoming prominent.

He was parish priest in St Alphonsus in the Barras before he went to Yorkhill in 1997. In 2005 he retired from his work as a psychologist in Notre Dame Child Guidance’s Adolescent Unit (Fern Tower). He is currently chair of Emmaus Glasgow, which is the first Scottish Community of a movement which was started in 1948 in France by the Abbe Pierre. He also serves on the board of Age Concern Scotland.

Willy is a daily cyclist. He completed the 284 Munros in 2004 and in 2006 climbed the 19 “furth munros” in the Lake District, North Wales and Ireland.