Noel Conway is a Catholic priest of the Diocese of Down and Connor who was ordained to the priesthood in 1957 and spent most of his active life as a priest as a teacher in St. Malachy's College Belfast. In 1983 he succeeded Patrick Joseph Walsh as President of St Malachy's College. After his time as President he was appointed Parish Priest of Strangford in County Down.
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Family background
He is the youngest of three brothers who became priests in the Diocese of Down and Connor - the eldest was Cardinal William Conway, then Canon Joseph Conway who also taught at St. Malachy's College and who in 1967, was appointed the founding President of the then St. Patrick's College, Knock.
Career
He attended St Marys CBGS Belfast before entering St. Malachy's College as a seminarian and then attended Queen's University, Belfast. He took a Science degree, specialising in Physics and then studied theology at the St Patricks College Maynooth.