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Diocesan Presbyteral Council

 “The priest is a servant of Christ, in the sense that his existence, configured to Christ ontologically, acquires an essentially relational character: he is in Christ, for Christ and with Christ, at the service of humankind.” Pope Benedict XVI

Presbyteral Council

From the Code of Canon Law

Can. 495 §1. In each diocese a presbyteral council is to be established, that is, a group of priests which, representing the presbyterium, is to be like a senate of the bishop and which assists the bishop in the governance of the diocese according to the norm of law to promote as much as possible the pastoral good of the portion of the people of God entrusted to him.

Presbyteral Council Members
  • Rev. Ryan Pietrocarlo, CSC
  • Rev. Benjamin Landrigan
  • Rev. Jonathan Norton
  • Rev. Msgr. Thomas Shoemaker
  • Rev. Terrence Coonan
  • Rev. David Violi
  • Rev. Msgr. Michael Heintz
  • Rev. Christopher Lapp
  • Rev. Logan Parrish
  • Rev. Craig Borchard
  • Rev. Osman Ramos
  • Rev. John Eze
Ex-Officio Members
  • Very Rev. Mark Gurtner
  • Very Rev. Francis Chukwuma
  • Very Rev. Matthew Coonan