Parish Information & Staff

Monsignor Kelly is a native of the south Bronx and the son of immigrant parents. He has attended St. Luke's Grammar School, Cathedral Prep and College, St. Joseph's Seminary and Fordham and St. John's University Graduate Schools. He was ordained a priest in 1967 by Francis Cardinal Spellman (RIP). Father has served the people of the Archdiocese as a parochial vicar (three years), high school teacher (twelve years), high school principal (twelve years) and, most recently, as pastor of St. Gabriel Parish in the Bronx (twelve years).
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Monsignor Kenny was pastor of St. Augustine Parish for twenty-one years.
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Father Joseph was ordained a priest in 1980 in Kanjirapally, Kerala, India. Prior to coming to the United States he was pastor in various parishes and Director of the Pastoral Formation Program for his Diocese. He taught at major seminary levels and served as spiritual counselor. Father Joseph has also been responsible for directing an orphanage and has run children's, youth and social ministry programs.
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Sister Suzanne is a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of Saints Cyril and Methodius whose motherhouse is in Danville, PA. She taught for 14 years in Catholic elementary schools in CT, NJ and SC. For the next 20 years she was a Catholic school principal in Harrisburg, PA. In the last 3 years she served in various roles of leadership in her congregation. She is a puppeteer, director of children's theater and has organized various events and groups for the cause of peace and social justice with youth and adults.
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Michael Ward's hymns, including In the Breaking of the Bread, Here I Am, Lord (I Come to Do Your Will), I Saw Water Flowing, and A New Commandment, are published by World Library Publications and J.S. Paluch's Monthly Missalette. He was director of music at St. Francis Xavier in Manhattan, St. Frances de Chantal and St. Theresa's in the Bronx. He has composed the music for several Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional theater productions, and received a Drama Desk Award nomination for the additional music he composed for Broadway's Angels in America.
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