Father John LoSasso, O.F.M. Cap.

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Father John LoSasso, O.F.M. Cap., pastor of Immaculate Conception parish on Gun Hill Road in the Bronx for 19 years, died Jan. 4 at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx. He was 68.

Father LoSasso was pastor of Immaculate Conception Church, 1996-2015, and continued to reside there.

He was provincial minister of the Province of the Sacred Stigmata of St. Francis, 1990-1996.

Born in Hackensack, N.J., he entered the Capuchin Franciscan Friars in 1968 and professed final vows in 1973. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1989.

His sister, Patty LoSasso, survives him.

A Funeral Mass was celebrated Jan. 8 at Immaculate Conception Church. Burial was in St. Lawrence Friary Cemetery, Beacon.

Father John LoSasso, O.F.M. Cap.