Diocesan Assignments

Diocesan Assignments – August 23, 2025

ADMINISTRATOR

Rev. Hugues Berrette, from parochial vicar of Our Lady of Miracles, Canarsie, to administrator of Guardian Angel, Brighton Beach, and to residence at St. Mark–St. Margaret Mary, Sheepshead Bay, effective July 14, 2025.

PAROCHIAL VICAR

Rev. Saint Charles Borno, from parochial vicar of Blessed Sacrament, Jackson Heights, to parochial vicar of Holy Child Jesus–St. Benedict Joseph Labre, Richmond Hill, effective June 30, 2025.

Rev. Raynolds Basilious, to parochial vicar of Our Lady of Angels, Bay Ridge, while remaining parochial vicar of St. Anselm, Bay Ridge, effective Aug. 1, 2025.

Rev. Daniel K. Rajski, to parochial vicar of St. Anselm, Bay Ridge, while remaining parochial vicar of Our Lady of Angels, Bay Ridge, effective Aug. 1, 2025.

Rev. Mark G. Simmons, to parochial vicar of St. Andrew the Apostle, Bay Ridge, while remaining parochial vicar of Our Lady of Angels and St. Anselm, Bay Ridge, effective Aug. 1, 2025.

NON-INCARDINATED

Rev. Michael U. Anyanwu, from residence and from limited ministry at St. Athanasius–Saint Dominic, Bensonhurst, to parochial vicar of St. Mark–St. Margaret Mary, Sheepshead Bay, and to chaplain of Mount Sinai Brooklyn Hospital, and Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital, Brooklyn, effective Aug. 1, 2025.

Rev. Tomasz Slesik, from parochial vicar of Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary–St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr, Ozone Park, and from temporary ministry at Holy Cross, Maspeth, to return to his home diocese in Poland, effective July 21, 2025.

Rev. Adrien L. Ntwa-Ilondo, from summer ministry to parochial vicar of St. Catherine of Genoa, East Flatbush, effective Sept. 1, 2025.

Rev. Arputham Arulsamy, to parochial vicar of St. Andrew the Apostle, while remaining parochial vicar of Our Lady of Angels, and St. Anselm, Bay Ridge, effective Aug. 1, 2025.

Rev. Augustin I. Umeatuegbu, from residence at Incarnation–St. Gerard Majella, Hollis, to parochial vicar of Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary–St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr, Ozone Park, while remaining parttime chaplain of Flushing Hospital, Flushing, effective Sept. 1, 2025.

RELIGIOUS ORDER

Rev. Enel Almeus, C.S.S.P., from residence at Our Lady of the Cenacle, Jamaica, to residence at St. Michael, Flushing, while remaining chaplain of NewYork-Presbyterian Queens, Flushing, effective June 30, 2025.

CHAPLAIN

Rev. Dominic N. Peprah, from part-time parochial vicar of St. Bernard, Mill Basin, to chaplain of NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospital, Brooklyn, while remaining part-time chaplain of NY-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, and residence at St. Bernard, Mill Basin, effective Feb. 1, 2025.

Rev. Sergiy Emanuel, from pastor of Guardian Angel, Brighton Beach, while remaining coordinator of ministry to the Russian and Ukrainian immigrants, and in private residence, effective July 31, 2025. Also to chaplain of SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, while remaining coordinator of ministry to the Russian and Ukrainian immigrants, and in private residence, effective Sept. 1, 2025.

SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT

Very Rev. Peter J. Purpura, to chaplain of the FDNY Headquarters, while remaining Regional Episcopal Vicar of Queens West, and pastor of Our Lady of Hope, Middle Village, effective June 10, 2025.

Very Rev. Sebastian T. Andro, to Adjunct Judicial Vicar, while remaining pastor of St. Rosalia–Regina Pacis, Dyker Heights, effective June 30, 2025.

Rev. Johnson Nedungadan, to part-time chaplain of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Queens, Flushing, while remaining parochial vicar of Resurrection Ascension–Our Lady of the Angelus, Middle Village, effective Sept. 1, 2025.

RELEASED FROM DIOCESAN ASSIGNMENT

Rev. Dragan Pusic, from parochial vicar to released from diocesan assignment, for ministry with the Neocatechumenal Way movement, effective May 1, 2025.

DEACON

Deacon Louis Panico, from deacon of St. Teresa of Avila–St. Anthony of Padua, South Ozone Park, to retired status, effective Sept. 1, 2025.