Reassignments of priests in DRVC

The Rockville Centre diocesan website has THIS LINK to seven pages of priest appointments, generally effective the end of June, 2024.

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In Nassau County, I see new pastors at Hewlett-Cedarhurst-Inwood, Bellmore, New Hyde Park, Roslyn, and Valley Stream. A priest from Poland will administer both St. Ladislaw, Hempstead, and St. Hedwig, Floral Park.

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There are many appointments of parochical vicars (otherwise called assistants or curates.)

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Little by little, I will attempt to explain the abbreviations used by religious orders and congregations.

First of all, O.P. stands for the Order of Preachers or Dominican Friars, who are taking charge of St. Barnabas parish, Bellmore.

The new pastor at St. Mary, Roslyn, is a priest of F.M.H., Franciscan Missionaries of Hope, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

The auxiliary bishop Luis Romero, is M. Id. the Idente Missonaries founded a hundred years ago in Spain by the layman Fernando Rielo. Bishop Romero is now administrator at Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal in Wyandanch. In the late 1940's, Mom brought us walking from friends on Winter Avenue to OLMM.

Appointed as parochial vicar to Our Lady of Mercy, Hicksville, is Rev. Regimond Benedict, O.I.C., the initials of the Order of the Imitation of Christ, an Eastern Rite Catholic from India. His rite appears to be Syro-Malankara, as in Elmont. It seems that both Catholic and Orthodox groups exist with the name and history of the Order of the Imitation of Christ.

Two priests are listed as C.M., Congregation of the Mission also called the Vincentians.

One, assigned to Huntington Station, is from South India. The other, assigned to Sea Cliff and Glen Cove, is from Poland. I find it remarkable that the congregation founded by St. Vincent de Paul in Paris now sends Polish and Indian priests to the dioceses of  Brooklyn and Rockville Centre.