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Faithful Service
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a legal services corporation through
which dioceses offer new immigrants
help in resettling. He later served as its
chairman for six years.
Episcopal Ordination
When he returned to Newark in 1991,
he was appointed associate executive
director of Catholic Community Services
and a year later became executive
director, a position he held for five years.
He also served as Vicar for Human
Services, and Vice President of the Board
of the archdiocesan Cathedral Healthcare
Systems, overseeing its hospitals.
In 1996, Pope John Paul II elevated
him to the rank of Auxiliary Bishop for the
Archdiocese of Newark.
From 1998 until 2001
he chaired the Migration
Committee of the U.S.
Conference of Catholic
Bishops.
In 2000, he was
appointed a member of
the Pontifical Council
for the Pastoral Care of
Migrants and Itinerant
People.
The Sixth Bishop of
Camden
He was appointed the sixth Bishop of
Camden, N.J., on June 8, 1999. There he
established an Office of Ethnic Ministries,
an Office of Black Catholic Ministry, and
an Office of Hispanic Ministry. He also
created an apostolate to the Haitian
community and founded two missions
to serve the Korean and Vietnamese
communities.
The Seventh Bishop of Brooklyn
On Aug. 1, 2003, he was named Bishop
of Brooklyn and installed at Our Lady of
Perpetual Help Basilica, Sunset Park, on
Oct. 3, 2003.
When he arrived in the diocese, he
explained that much of his ministry would
be centered on a simple phrase from the
Gospel.
That’s Luke’s gospel 6 (Luke 6) when
Jesus says, “Put out into the deep,” and
basically, I applied it,” he said. “But this
is where people get frustrated. They try
all these things. ‘We have been fishing all
night and we didn’t catch anything,’ they
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio
when he was at the
seminary. (File photo)
say to the priest. They’ve given up. ‘What
do we do? How many things?’ Well, try
again. Try it again. Have confidence that
God will give us the catch, the growth that
we need if we keep trying to be faithful to
what our responsibilities are.
“People kind of give up. They get
depressed. They don’t want to try
anything. Basically, since I came here,
that’s all I kept talking about. Even at the
installation, it was the same points of
reviving Evangelization, trying over again.
Trying harder to do what we’ve done. It’s
not so much new things we can do but
we do what we’re supposed to do, with
greater zeal. And that’s Evangelization.”
The Bishop of Immigrants
One of his first acts
as Bishop of Brooklyn
was to speak at the
Immigrant Workers
Freedom Ride Rally at
Flushing Meadows Park.
In November 2003, he
joined Brooklyn’s Muslim
community at a Ramadan
celebration in Sunset Park
and attended the Fifth
World Congress of the
Pontifical Council for the
Pastoral Care of Migrants
and Itinerant People in Rome.
He served as the only U.S. resident on
the Global Commission on International
Migration, sponsored by the Secretary-
General of the United Nations and a
number of governments. It began its
work in December 2003, and concluded
Dec. 31, 2005, after completing a report,
entitled “Migration in an interconnected
world; New directions for action”. The
Bishop was the only U.S. resident on the
19-member commission.
A National Figure
From 2004 to 2007, Bishop DiMarzio
chaired the Domestic Policy Committee
of the U.S. Conference of Catholic
Bishops. During his tenure, the committee
formulated “Forming Consciences for
Faithful Citizenship”, published in 2008,
a call to political responsibility from the
Catholic bishops of the U.S.
He has also served as chairman of
the Bishops’ Migration Committee, and
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Rev. Gordon P. Kusi,
Rev. Michael K.
Onyekwere, SDV
And
Rev. Krystian Piasta.
Celebrating 25 Years
Many Blessings and
Congratulations
on your
25th Anniversary
of Priesthood from
Deanery Queens South 9.