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June 11, 2018

Former Cathedral High School campus minister ordained a priest

REGIONAL
Staff report

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BRONX, N.Y. – Father Keith Maczkiewicz was ordained a Jesuit priest at an ordination Mass in the Fordham University Church, here, June 9.

Father Maczkiewicz was the director of campus ministry at the former Cathedral High School in Springfield from 2004 to 2006. He was assigned there as part of the Providence Alliance for Catholic Teachers (PACT) and lived in community with other volunteers and earned his master’s degree in secondary education.

Father Maczkiewicz was ordained along with five other men by Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York. A member of the Northeast Province, he earned a master of divinity degree at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University in Berkley, Calif. While there, he also served as a deacon and the director of faith formation at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Oakland, Calif.

This fall he will complete his licentiate in sacred theology and minister in the Chaplain’s Office at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass.

Father Maczkiewicz was born and raised on Long island, N.Y. He was an altar server in his home parish, St. Joseph’s, in Ronkonkoma, N.Y.

He attended Emerson College and then transferred to Fairfield University in Connecticut where he encountered the Jesuits. He was involved in campus ministry there and earned a degree in history and American studies.
After his two years at Cathedral High School, he worked in campus ministry at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania. He entered the Jesuits in 2008.

For the last 10 years he has been involved in studies, service, and campus ministry. He holds a master’s degree in social philosophy from Loyola University in Chicago.

He celebrated his first Mass of Thanksgiving at his home parish on June 10.

Another former campus minister at Cathedral High School, Conventual Franciscan Friar Emanuel Vasconcelos, is scheduled to be ordained June 22 in Buffalo, N.Y., for the Our Lady of the Angels Province.  

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