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June 20, 2020 | TheTablet.org
50th Anniversary: 10 Diocesan Priests Mark Golden Jubilees
Father Dennis Corrado, c.o.
Father Corrado, c.o., was raised in St.
Robert Bellarmine parish, Bayside Hills, and
attended Cathedral College, Brooklyn; and
Christ the King Seminary at St. Bonaventure
University. He was ordained May 30, 1970
by Bishop Francis J. Mugavero at St.
James Pro-Cathedral, Brooklyn.
He served as an assistant at Good
Shepherd, Marine Park, 1970-73. He
then did further studies at the University
of Denver for a mass communications
graduate degree. He continued in the
doctoral program at USC’s Department
of Cinema Studies where he taught film
history and aesthetics. When he returned to
the Diocese, he was assigned to the Office
of Education and later to the Office of
Pastoral Communications.
He joined the team ministry at St. James
Pro-Cathedral in 1979. During his 12 years
there, the Cathedral was named a minor
basilica, was renovated, the former school
redeveloped as a pastoral center, and the
former convent welcomed back the Sisters
of Mercy at their foundation site as a group
Father Dennis Corrado, c.o.
home for disabled boys.
With the permission of Bishop Mugavero,
he co-founded a new community branch
of the Pontifical Congregation of St.
Philip Neri. Leaving his incardination
in the Diocese, he became and served
as the Provincial Superior of the new
Congregation of the Oratory of St. Philip
Neri, brothers and laity for 30 years. The
congregation was officially given the
Church of St. Boniface as its home in the
Msgr. Alfred P. LoPinto
heart of MetroTech, where he served as its
pastor administrator for ten years.
He was elected to represent the U.S.
houses of the Oratorians to the Permanent
of Deputation to the Holy See in Rome for
12 years. At the same time, he worked for
20 years as a retreat and mission preacher
in 22 states and four foreign countries.
At the request of the Diocese, he signed
an agreement to assume a second parish
— Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
in Brooklyn Heights — where he and the
community continue to reside and serve
both parishes.
Plans for an anniversary celebration are
on hold during the pandemic.
Msgr. Alfred P. LoPinto
Msgr. LoPinto, diocesan vicar for Human
Services and chief executive officer of
Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens, is
a Brooklyn native, who attended PS 155,
Our Lady of Loreto School, both East New
York; Xavier H.S., Manhattan; St. John’s
University, Jamaica; and Immaculate
Conception Seminary, Huntington. He did
further studies at Iona College, Columbia
University School of Social Work, and the
Catholic University, Ponce, Puerto Rico.
He was ordained May 30, 1970, by
Bishop Francis J. Mugavero at St. James
Pro-Cathedral, Brooklyn.
He served as an assistant at Our Lady of
Fatima, East Elmhurst, 1970-71; St. Gregory
the Great, Bellerose, 1971-81; and as a
member of the staff of Catholic Charities,
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