Bishop Edmund J. Whalen Announces Archdiocesan Priest Assignments, Effective 1st July, 2024
By: Auxiliary Bishop Edmund J. Whalen
Bishop Edmund J. Whalen, Vicar for Clergy for the Archdiocese of New York, has announced the following priest assignments. Additional announcements will be made as the process continues, along with notification of open pastorates. All assignments are effective 1st July, 2024.
Pastors and administrators
Father Sean Connolly – from administrator of St. Brigid-St. Emeric, and Most Holy Redeemer-
Nativity, Manhattan to pastor of St. Margaret of Cortona-St. Gabriel, Riverdale
Father Brian McCarthy – from pastor of St. Margaret of Cortona-St. Gabriel, Riverdale to
retirement
Monsignor Kevin Nelan – administrator of St. Brigid-St. Emeric and administrator of Most Holy Redeemer-Nativity, Manhattan while remaining pastor of Immaculate Conception, Manhattan and dean of the South Manhattan Deanery
Father Robert McKeon – from pastor of St. Francis of Assisi, West Nyack to pastor of St. Catherine, Blauvelt (Note: St. Francis of Assisi will be advertised.)
Monsignor Francis McAree – from pastor of St. Catherine, Blauvelt to retirement
Father Ricardo Garcia – from parochial vicar of St. Frances de Chantal, The Bronx to
administrator of St. Teresa, Manhattan.
Father Alexis Bastidas – from pastor of St. Teresa, Manhattan to medical retirement
Father William Cleary – from vice rector and professor of Sacred Scripture at St. Joseph’s Seminary, Dunwoodie to pastor of St. Joseph, Bronxville while remaining on the part-time faculty of St. Joseph’s Seminary, Dunwoodie
Father Peter McGeory – from pastor of St. Joseph, Bronxville to retirement
Father Osvaldo Hernandez – from parochial vicar at St. Lawrence O’Toole, Brewster to administrator at Our Lady of Mercy, The Bronx
Father Jose Ambooken – from pastor of Our Lady of Mercy, The Bronx to retirement
Father Reynor Santiago – from parochial vicar at St. Joseph, St. Mary Immaculate, Staten Island
to administrator of Holy Rosary, Greenwood Lake
Father Augustine Badgely – from pastor of Holy Rosary, Greenwood Lake to retirement
Father Shane Johnson – from administrator of St. Anthony of Padua, The Bronx to pastor of St.
Margaret Mary, The Bronx
Father Rudolph Gonzalez – from pastor of St. Margaret Mary, The Bronx to leave of absence for
family reasons
Father Fredy Patino – from parochial vicar at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, The Bronx to administrator of St. Anthony of Padua, The Bronx. Bishop Joseph Espaillat remains as pastor of St. Anthony of Padua
Father Gerald Murray – from pastor of Holy Family, Manhattan to pastor of St. Joseph, Yorkville
Father Boniface Ramsey – from pastor of St. Joseph, Yorkville to retirement
Father Szymon Kurpios – from parochial vicar (and former administrator) of St. James, Carmel to pastor of St. John, Mahopac
Father Philip Caruso – from pastor of St. John, Mahopac to retirement
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Parochial Vicars
Father Michael Achanyi – from parochial vicar at Sacred Heart to chaplain corps, United States Air Force
Father Tony Bautista, SSP (exclustration ad experimentum) from parochial vicar, St. John Goshen to parochial vicar, Immaculate Conception and Assumption of Our Lady, Tuckahoe
Father Robert Carolan – from parochial vicar, Annunciation-Our Lady of Fatima, Crestwood to parochial vicar, St. James, Carmel
Father Carmine Caruso – from parochial vicar, St. Mary, Mother of the Church, Fishkill to parochial vicar Annunciation-Our Lady of Fatima, Crestwood
Father Walter Genito – from parochial vicar, St. Columba, Hopewell Junction to parochial vicar, St. Margaret of Cortona-St. Gabriel, Riverdale
Father Carlos Germosen – from parochial vicar, St. Peter and St. Mary of the Assumption, Haverstraw, to parochial vicar, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, The Bronx
Father Sandro Leyton – from parochial vicar, St. Margaret of Cortona-St. Gabriel, Riverdale to parochial vicar, St. Frances de Chantal, The Bronx
Father Adolfo Novio – from parochial vicar, Immaculate Conception and Assumption of Our Lady, Tuckahoe to parochial vicar, St. Joseph, St. Mary Immaculate, Staten Island