The Venerable Gary Lea Hastings has been Archdeacon of Tuam since 2006. Hastings was born in 1956, educated at the New University of Ulster and ordained in 1990. After a curacy in Galwey he was the Incumbent of the Aughaval group from 1995 to 2012; and, during the same period, was also Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Tuam. He became a Canon of St Mary's Cathedral, Tuam in 2000; and, in 2010, of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.