Diocesan Assignments

Diocesan Assignments – February 4, 2023

ADMINISTRATOR 

Rev. Msgr. Guy A. Massie, to administrator of St. Mary Star of the Sea, Carroll Gardens, while remaining pastor of Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary & St. Stephen, Carroll Gardens, and dean of Brooklyn 3 Deanery, effective December 9, 2022. 

Rev. Felix Sanchez, to temporary administrator of St. Bonaventure – St. Benedict the Moor, Jamaica, while remaining pastor of St. Pius V, Jamaica, effective Jan. 31. 


RETIRED 

Rev. Msgr. Thomas G. Caserta, from pastor of St. Bernadette, Dyker Heights, to senior priest status, and to residence at Holy Family, Fresh Meadows, effective, June 30. 

Rev. Msgr. Steven A. Ferrari, from pastor of St. Teresa, Woodside, to senior priest status, and to private residence, effective June 30. 

Rev. Msgr. Otto L. Garcia, from parochial vicar of St. Teresa, Woodside, to senior priest status, effective October 30, 2022. 

Rev. Msgr. Raymond P. Roden, from faculty and spiritual director of Cathedral Seminary House of Formation, Douglaston, to senior priest status, and to residence at the Bishop Mugavero Residence for Senior Priests, Douglaston, effective December 1, 2022. 

Rev. William A. With, from pastor of Resurrection, Gerritsen Beach, to senior priest status, effective June 30. 

Rev. Ronald M. D’Antonio, from parochial vicar of St. Athanasius–Saint Dominic, Bensonhurst, to senior priest status, and to residence at Most Precious Blood–Ss. Simon and Jude, Bath Beach, effective June 30. 

Rev. William G. Smith, from pastor of St. Charles Borromeo, Brooklyn Heights, to senior priest status, effective June 30. 

Rev. Msgr. Richard E. Marchese, from released from diocesan assignment – ministry in Washington, D.C., to senior priest status, effective Jan. 31. 


NON-INCARDINATED 

Rev. Emmanuel N. Conduah, to coordinator of ministry of Ghanaian Immigrants, while remaining chaplain of NYU Langone Brooklyn hospital, and NY-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist hospital, Park Slope, and in residence at Holy Name of Jesus, Park Slope, effective Jan. 31. 

Rev. Piotr Klym, to parochial vicar of Holy Cross, Maspeth, effective December 8, 2022. 


RELIGIOUS ORDER 

Rev. Manuel Rodriguez-Delgado, C.Ss.R., to residence and priestly ministry at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Sunset Park, effective Jan. 1. 


SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT 

Rev. John J. Costello, to formation advisor of the Cathedral Seminary House of Formation, Douglaston, while remaining pastor of St. Luke, Whitestone, effective September 23, 2022. 

Rev. Miguel A. Cervantes Pardo, to acting rector of the Brooklyn Diocesan Missionary House of Formation Redemptoris Mater, Queens Village, effective December 1, 2022. 

Rev. Ilyas Gill, to dean of Brooklyn 4 Deanery, while remaining pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary, Kensington, and coordinator of ministry to Pakistani Immigrants, effective Jan. 1. 


TRANSITIONAL DEACON 

Rev. Mr. Samuel M. Mwiwawi, to transitional deacon of St. Bernard, Mill Basin, while remaining in formation at Pope St. John XXIII, Weston, MA., effective Jan. 7. 


DEACON 

Deacon Edward J. Guster, to move to the Diocese of Rockville Centre, while remaining in retired status, effective Jan. 1. 


EXCARDINATED 

Rev. Mark A. Matthias, from released from diocesan assignment, ministering outside Brooklyn, to excardinated status and incardination into the Diocese of Camden, effective Jan. 17.