Funeral services will be held Nov. 20 in St. James Church, 29 East Paul Avenue, Trenton, for Trinitarian Father Philip Aloysius Cordisco who died Nov. 17 in St. Joseph Skilled Nursing Center, Lawrenceville.

Visitation will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. at which time a Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated.

Father Cordisco was born in 1932, in Bristol, Pa. and grew up in the town’s St. Ann Parish, which was staffed by Trinitarian priests. He graduated from St. Ann Parish School and then entered the Postulancy of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity Aug. 25, 1947. After graduating from St. John DeMatha Preparatory Seminary, Hyattsville, Md., in 1951, he entered the novitiate of the Trinitarian Fathers in Sacred Heart Monastery, Pikesville, Md., Sept. 11, 1951, and was given the name Brother Timothy of the Most Holy Rosary. He professed temporary vows of poverty, chastity and obedience in September, 1952.

Father Cordisco began college studies in The Catholic University of America, Washington, in 1952; made his permanent profession of vows in November, 1955, and was ordained a priest June 4, 1960, by Bishop John McNamara in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington.

As a priest, Father Cordisco served as parochial vicar and as pastor in Trinitarian parishes in Illinois, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

For three years, he was pastor of his home parish from 1978 to 1981. In the Trenton Diocese, he served in the Diocese’s two Trinitarian parishes – St. James, which is now part of Incarnation-St. James Parish, Ewing. He was parochial vicar from 1961 to 1965; pastor from 1975 to 1978, and then returned as parochial vicar from 1987 to 2007. In Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, which has since become part of Mother of Mercy Parish, Asbury Park., he was pastor from 1971 to 1975.

Other responsibilities he held included serving as the finance officer of DeMatha Catholic High School, Hyattsville, Md. He also served as the master of novices and as a provincial councilor for the Trinitarians.

In 2007, Father Cordisco became a weekend assistant in Our Lady of the Angels Parish, Trenton, and chaplain of St. Francis Medical Center, Trenton. In 2011, he was installed as chaplain to the Hamilton Township, Knights of Columbus and Trenton Council, Knights of Columbus.

Father Cordisco was predeceased by his parents, three brothers and two sisters. He is survived by his sister Marie Antonelli, nieces and nephews, and priests and brothers of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Captives and many friends.

Following the Mass of Christian Burial on Nov. 20, Father Cordisco will be transferred to Holy Trinity Monastery, Baltimore, where visitation will be held from 10 to 11 a.m. at which time the Office of the Dead will be prayed. Burial will follow in Holy Trinity Monastery Cemetery.