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Obituary: Father Hector Ramon Melendez Varona, retired priest, 81

by Office of Clergy Personnel
June 27, 2026
Obituaries

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Monday, June 29, at St. Dominic Church in Miami, Fla., for Father Hector

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Obituary: Father Gregory Drogon, retired diocesan priest, 76

by Office of Clergy Personnel
April 1, 2026
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A private Mass of Christian Burial was held on Tuesday, March 31, for Father Gregory Drogon, a retired priest of the Paterson

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Obituary: Deacon Richard Charles Zeich, formerly served Dover parish, 83

by Office of Clergy Personnel
February 24, 2026
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A memorial service will be held on Saturday, April 11 at 11 a.m. at St. Pius X Church in South Yarmouth, Mass.,

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Obituary: Father Luciano Cruz, retired Paterson priest, 80

by Office of Clergy Personnel
December 7, 2025
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A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 10, at 10 a.m. at St. Therese Church in Paterson, N.J.,

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Obituary: Valerie Gagnon, mother of Hawthorne priest, 67

by Office of Clergy Personnel
November 5, 2025
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Valerie Gagnon, mother of Father Stephen T. Prisk, vice chancellor of the Paterson Diocese in New Jersey, and pastor of St. Anthony

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New Minister to Priests highly respected by the presbyterate

by Office of Clergy Personnel
February 24, 2025
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Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney has appointed Father T. Kevin Corcoran, pastor of Corpus Christi Parish in Chatham Township, as the Minister to

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