DRVC assignments 6.24.2025

The new or modified assignments of the priests and deacons of the diocese of Rockville Centre effective 6.24.2025 are on eight pdf pages. Please note that this is not a complete list of  personnel, as it lists changes. I have been unable to write a link, so go to the drvc.org website and search for assignments.

---

I am also having difficulty printing all eight pages from Adobe Acrobat.

---

St. Joseph's parish in Garden City gained a bishop for its new pastor, namely auxiliary bishop Andrzej Zglejszewski, who will remain Episcopal Vicar for the Western Vicariate and Vicar for Worship. 

---

In the City of Glen Cove and nearby Glen Head, Dom Gabriel Roch is pastor of three parishes, St. Patrick, Glen Cove, where he and his community reside, St. Rocco, Glen Cove, and (apparently recently without a resident priest), St. Hyacinth, Glen Head. The newest church structure is St. Hyacinth, the Latin version of the Polish name Jacek. On weekends, St. Patrick's has five Masses, including one in Spanish. St. Rocco has five Masses, including one in Italian and one lingua latina, usus antiquior. At St. Hyacinth, there are no weekday Masses, but there are three weekend Masses, including one in Polish. That seems to add up to thirteen weekend Masses offered by Canons Regular from Klosterneuburg, lower Austria. 

---

St. Bernard's, Levittown, has a new pastor, Rev. John D. McCarthy. See video HERE.

---

Two Polish churches in Nassau County will share a priest of the Archdiocse of Lublin, Poland. The Rev. Jerzy Bres will live at St. Ladislaus, Hempstead, but also attend to St. Hedwig, Floral Park. There are six weekend Masses at St. Hedwig and other priests on the staff.  At St. Ladislaus, two weekend Masses are in English, one in Spanish, and one in Polish. The given name Jerzy has roots in Latin and Greek Georgios, farmer.

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.

---

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.

---

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

---

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.

Assignments in 2023, mostly June

The link below is to a composite list of 2023 priestly assignments. Note that the sole assignment of a new pastor in Nassau County is Rev. Leo Song to St. Raphael, East Meadow. Other new pastors are in Suffolk County.

Link HERE.