Father William Hahn, diocesan vicar for the clergy, has announced that members of the Pallottine order of priests will be serving as administrators at four more diocesan parishes. 

Father Andrez Kozminski, SAC, who has been parochial vicar of Columbus St. Christopher Church, became administrator of Columbus Sacred Heart Church, effective Saturday, Oct. 1, and will become administrator of Columbus St. John the Baptist Church effective Tuesday, Nov. 1, All Saints Day. 

Father Slawomir Siok, SAC, who has been serving outside the diocese, will become administrator of Columbus St. Mary Magdalene and St. Aloysius churches, effective Monday, Nov. 1. 

Father Adam Streitenberger had been serving as administrator at Sacred Heart. He has been appointed as executive director at the Columbus St. Thomas More Newman Center. Deacon Frank Iannarino has been administrator at St. John the Baptist. Father Patrick Toner is retiring as pastor at St. Mary Magdalene and St. Aloysius.  

The Pallottines have been serving in the diocese since 2021, when Father Wojciech Stachura, SAC, was appointed pastor of Columbus St. Christopher Church, a position he retains. 

Priests belonging to what is formally known as the Society of the Catholic Apostolate are known as the Pallottines in honor of their founder, St. Vincent Pallotti. The order has approximately 2,300 members in more than 40 nations.  

New assignments within the diocese also have been announced for priests of the Mercedarian, Missionary Servants of the Word and Theatine orders. 

Mercedarian Father Daniel Bowen, O de M, has joined Fathers Michael Donovan, O de M, pastor, and Joseph Eddy, O de M at Columbus Holy Family Church. The Mercedarians – the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy – came to the parish this year and plan to use the rectory as a student house for seminarians studying at the Pontifical College Josephinum to become priests of their order. 

Father Eduardo Velazquez Alvarado, MSP, pastor of Columbus St. Stephen the Martyr Church, has been appointed pastor of Columbus St. Agnes Church, with Father Efrain Villalobos Cuellar, MSP, parochial vicar at St. Stephen, succeeding him as pastor there.  

Father Leonardo Cuautle, MSP, associate administrator at St. Stephen, has been appointed to service outside the diocese. All are members of the Missionary Servants of the Word, an order that has been serving the Latino community in Columbus since arriving at St. Stephen in 2011. 

Theatine Fathers Victor Mendez Cano, CR; David Arroyo Alonso, CR; and Salvador Cisneros Carrillo, CR have been serving as parochial vicars at Columbus Christ the King and St. Thomas the Apostle churches since late July. Theatine Father Tomas Carvahal, CR, arrived in Columbus in July 2021 and is assigned to Dover St. Joseph Church. 

Father Carvahal’s arrival at Dover in 2021 marked the first assignment of a Theatine to serve in a state outside Colorado since the order left New York more than 100 years ago. 

The Maronite Catholic community in Columbus once again has a priest of its own. Father Jacques Kik has been assigned to pastoral ministry at Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Mission in Columbus by Bishop A. Elias Zaidan of the Maronite Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon, based in Los Angeles. Father Kik also is serving as part-time parochial vicar at Powell St. Joan of Arc Church. 

Father Eugene Joseph has been reassigned from St. Joan of Arc to Columbus St. Joseph Cathedral, where he is serving as parochial vicar. Father Joseph was born in India, moved to England when he was 10 years old and was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Columbus because he completed his seminary studies at the Pontifical College Josephinum.  

His ordination took place in England in July 2021 because he had to return there as a result of paperwork problems related to his change in immigration status as a priest and because the COVID-related closing of the U.S. Embassy in London prevented processing of the paperwork.