Priest Personnel Changes 2024

May 1, 2024 at 8:00 a.m.

Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., has announced the following clergy assignments, effective July 1, 2024

Retirement 

Rev. Daniel Hesko, pastor, St. Catherine Laboure Parish, Middletown

Rev. Michael Manning, pastor, Holy Cross Parish, Rumson

Rev. Pedro Bou, S.V.D., in residence, Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, Lakewood

Rev. Stephen Schuler, S.V.D., in residence, St. Raphael-Holy Angels Parish, Hamilton

Administrator/Pastor

Rev. Michael Lankford-Stokes, from staff Catholic chaplain at New Jersey Healthcare System, VA Hospital to pastor, Holy Cross Parish, Rumson

Rev. Richard Osborn, from parochial vicar, St. James Parish, Red Bank, to administrator, St. Catherine Laboure Parish, Middletown.

Rev. Jason Parzynski, from administrator to pastor, St. David the King Parish, West Windsor

Rev. Christopher Dayton, from administrator to pastor, St. Paul Parish, Princeton

Rev. Peter Claver Fleury Lunimbu, S.V.D., from parochial vicar to administrator, St. Ann Parish, Browns Mills

Parochial Vicar

Rev. Kerly Francois, from St. Thomas Diocese, U.S. Virgin Islands, to parochial vicar, St. Paul Parish, Princeton

Rev. Eugene Vavrick, from parochial vicar, Our Lady of Perpetual Help-St. Agnes Parish, Atlantic Highlands, to parochial vicar, St. Raphael-Holy Angels Parish, Hamilton

Rev. Miguel Valle, from administrative leave to parochial vicar, St. Mark Parish, Sea Girt

Rev. Carlos Castilla, from parochial vicar, St. Mark Parish, Sea Girt, to parochial vicar, St. Michael Parish, West End, and Catholic Campus Ministry in Monmouth University, West Long Branch

Rev. Andrew Thu Pham, S.V.D., from parochial vicar, St. Monica Parish, Atlantic City, to parochial vicar, St. Ann Parish, Browns Mills

Newly Ordained

Rev. Wynne Kerridge, to parochial vicar, St. James Parish, Red Bank

Rev. Brian Meinders, to parochial vicar, St. Robert Bellarmine Co-Cathedral, Freehold