Obituary: Reverend Father Karl A. Bauer

| 02/8/2023

By: The Good Newsroom

A memorial Mass will be held Friday, February 17, in Yonkers

A still photo of Reverend Father Karl A. Bauer, who died on December 31, 2022.
A still photo of Reverend Father Karl A. Bauer, who died on December 31, 2022.

The Reverend Father Karl Anthony Bauer, 84, pastor emeritus, Church of St. Anthony, Nepera Park, entered eternal life on December 31, 2022.

Born on October 4, 1938 in the Bronx, Father Bauer received a B.A. in English from Fordham University, before completing a Master’s degree in English at New York University and entering St. Joseph’s Seminary. He was ordained on May 27, 1967.
 
After spending three months at St. Aloysius in Livingston Manor, he was appointed associate pastor of the Church of St. Mary in Wappingers Falls in September 1967, where he remained until 1976. He served at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Shrub Oak from 1976 to 1984, then was a member of the Metropolitan Tribunal in Poughkeepsie from 1984 to 1987.
 

He was pastor of St. Frances of Rome, the Bronx, from 1987 to 1999. On July 1, 1999, he became pastor of St. Anthony in Yonkers, where he was reappointed twice, in 2005 and again in 2011, finally retiring in 2013 to Carlsbad, California. Father Bauer celebrated his Golden Jubilee in May 2017. 

Funeral rites took place in California. Burial will take place in Pennsylvania on Saturday, February 11. 

A memorial Mass will be held Friday, February 17, at 7 p.m. at the Church of St. Anthony, 10 Squire Avenue (at Nepperhan Avenue), Yonkers, NY, 10703, (914) 965-2733. The principal celebrant will be His Excellency, The Most Reverend Gerald T. Walsh. The Reverend Monsignor Frank Pugliese will be the homilist.

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