Cardinal to Ordain 10 Priests at Cathedral Mass May 29

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Cardinal Dolan will ordain 10 men to the priesthood at a Mass in St. Patrick’s Cathedral at 9 a.m. on Saturday, May 29.

Six are being ordained as priests for the Archdiocese of New York, and four for the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal. 

The new archdiocesan priests are Father Matthew Breslin, Father Robert Carolan, Father Carmine Caruso, Father Steven N. Gonzalez, Father Kevin Panameño and Father Wesbee Victor. 

Being ordained for the Renewal Friars are Father Frantisek Marie Chloupek, C.F.R., Father Ignatius Pio Mariae Doherty, C.F.R., Father Joseph Michael Fino, C.F.R., and Father Elijah Marie Perri, C.F.R.

Eight of the new priests completed their formation for the priesthood at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Dunwoodie. Father Carmine Caruso completed his priestly formation at Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary in Weston, Mass., and Father Wesbee Victor completed his priestly formation at the Theological College of The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.