Diocesan Assignments

Diocesan Assignments, Aug. 27, 2016

PASTOR

Most Rev. Neil E. Tiedemann, C.P., to pastor of St. Matthias, Ridgewood, while remaining auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn, effective Sept. 1.

Rev. Raymond P. Roden, from administrator to pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows, Corona, effective Oct. 1.

Rev. Peter D. Gillen, from administrator to pastor of St. Brendan, Midwood, effective Oct. 2.

 

PASTOR (RELIGIOUS ORDER)

Rev. Orlando Ruiz, O.F.M., from parochial vicar, to pastor of Our Lady of Peace, Park Slope, effective July 1.

Rev. Jose A. Orellana, I.V.E., from administrator to pastor of Mary Mother of the Church, East New York, effective July 1.

 

TEMPORARY ADMINISTRATOR

Rev. Edward P. Doran, to temporary administrator of St. Charles Borromeo, Brooklyn Heights, while remaining active senior priest, effective July 22.

 

PAROCHIAL VICAR

Rev. Francis J. Mann, from parochial vicar of St. Brigid, Wyckoff Heights, to parochial vicar of St. Martin of Tours, Bushwick, and to part-time evangelization ministry, Bushwick, effective June 30.

 

SABBATICAL

Rev. Charles P. Keeney, to sabbatical, while remaining college chaplain for Long Island University, Brooklyn, and associate campus minister to the vicar of higher education, effective June 30.

 

RESIDENCE

Rev. Msgr. Edward V. Wetterer, to residence at St. Thomas the Apostle, Woodhaven, while remaining in senior priest status, effective Aug. 1.

 

NON-INCARDINATED

Rev. Joseph G. Hugo, from parochial vicar of St. Charles Borromeo and from Assumption, Brooklyn Heights, to parochial vicar of Our Lady Help of Christians, Midwood, effective Sept. 30.

Rev. Joey C. Francisco, from parochial vicar of Our Lady Help of Christians, Midwood, to parochial vicar of St. Sebastian, Woodside, effective Sept. 30.

Rev. Ebenezer K. Abban, from parochial vicar of St. Mark, Sheepshead Bay, to return to his home diocese in Ghana, effective July 28.

 

RELIGIOUS ORDER

Rev. Patrick D. Boyle, O.F.M., from pastor of Our Lady of Peace, Park Slope, and dean of Brooklyn 4 Deanery, to return to ministry with his order, effective June 30.

Rev. Zbigniew Zieba, S.A.C., to parochial vicar of St. Aloysius, Ridgewood, effective June 30.

Rev. James J. Barry, C.P., to residence and ministry at the Immaculate Conception Monastery, Jamaica, effective July 1.

Rev. Joseph V. Cummins, C.M., from parochial vicar of St. John the Baptist, Bedford-Stuyvesant, to ministry with his order outside Brooklyn, effective Sept. 5.

Rev. Marek Rudecki, S.A.C., from parochial vicar of St. Aloysius, Ridgewood, to ministry in the Archdiocese of New York, effective Aug. 31.

Rev. Jilson George, C.M.I., from parochial vicar of St. Anthony-St. Alphonsus, Greenpoint, to ministry with his order in Massachusetts, effective Aug. 31.

Rev. Henry Free, C.P., deceased May 14.

Rev. Daniel Free, C.P., deceased June 11.

 

SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT

Very Rev. William J. Rueger, to dean of Brooklyn 4 Deanery, while remaining pastor of St. Francis Xavier, Park Slope, effective June 30.

 

DEACON

Deacon Carlos M. Valderrama, from deacon of Divine Mercy, Williamsburg, to retired status, effective July 1.

Deacon George A. Bourbeau, from deacon of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, Bayside, to released from diocesan assignment to move to the Diocese of Manchester, N.H., effective June 30.

Deacon Julio C. Murillo, from deacon of Resurrection-Ascension, Rego Park, to released from diocesan assignment to move to the Diocese of Rockville Centre, effective June 30.

Deacon Wilner Pierre-Louis, from deacon of St. Matthew, Crown Heights, to deacon of St. Francis of Assisi-St. Blaise, Crown Heights, effective Sept. 1.

 

DEACON NON-INCARDINATED

Rev. Mr. Nicholas Spano, to deacon in transition of the San Damiano Mission, Greenpoint, effective Aug. 4.

 

CORRECTIONS

Rev. Christopher M. O’Connor, to spiritual director of the Legion of Mary, Brooklyn Commitium, for the Diocese of Brooklyn, while remaining pastor of Blessed Virgin Mary Help of Christians, Woodside, effective June 30.

Rev. John B. Ephraim, to parochial vicar of St. Thomas Aquinas, Marine Park, and to chaplain of Mount Sinai Beth Israel and New York Community Hospitals, Brooklyn, effective June 1.