Clergy assignments include Baltimore natives as east-side pastors

 

Archbishop William E. Lori  announced six clergy assignments Sept. 3, including two new pastors who are Baltimore natives.

Redemptorist Father Richard Poetzel is the new pastor of Our Lady of Fatima in Baltimore, where he had served as an associate pastor since 1993.

Raised in Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish in Highlandtown and ordained in 1963, he served for 20 years at the Redemptorists’ major seminary, Mount St. Alphonsus in Esopus, N.Y., as a librarian, professor of liturgical theology, academic dean, and acting president. From 1985 to 1987, he was rector of the St. John Neumann Residence in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., the Redemptorists’ home for confreres needing skilled-nursing care.

Conventual Franciscan Father Timothy Dore, another Baltimore native, is the new pastor of the twinned parishes of St. Ann and St. Wenceslaus. Father Dore’s previous assignments include being rector of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Syrcause, N.Y., and as parochial vicar of Most Holy Trinity-St. Mary in Brooklyn, N.Y.

All of the Sept. 3 clergy assignments follow.

Reverend Richard Poetzel, C.Ss.R.
to Pastor of Our Lady of Fatima Parish, Baltimore. Effective Aug. 6.

Reverend Timothy Dore, O.F.M. Conv.
to pastor of St. Ann and St. Wenceslaus Parishes. Effective Sept. 1.

Reverend Vincent Arisukwu
to Associate Pastor at the Glen Burnie area Parishes of Holy Trinity, Church of the Crucifixion and Good Shepherd. Effective Aug. 17.

 

Reverend J. Dominic Bump, O.P.

to Catholic Chaplain and Director of Campus Ministry at Johns Hopkins University. Effective Aug. 1.

Reverend Jerome Zeiler, O.P.

to Assistant Chaplain and Assistant Director of Campus Ministry at Johns Hopkins University; Effective Aug. 17.

Reverend Michael Triplett

to Director of Deacon Formation, while continuing as Administrator of Our Lady of Grace Parish. Effective Sept. 1.

Also see:

Clergy assignments announced for July 2015