DIOCESE OF LEXINGTON DIOCESAN DIRECTORY

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DIOCESE OF LEXINGTON

DIOCESAN DIRECTORY

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THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF LEXINGTON 1310 WEST MAIN STREET

LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY 40508-2048 (859) 253-1993 ? FAX (859) 254-6284 ?

OFFICE HOURS: MONDAY-FRIDAY 8:30 AM - NOON; 1:00 - 4:30 PM

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Table of Contents

Mission Statement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Our Bishop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Diocesan Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Diocesan Deaneries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Diocesan Curia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Diocesan Boards, Commissions & Committees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Diocesan Department Personnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Campus Ministry & Newman Centers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Service Agencies and Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Catholic Cemeteries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Health Care Centers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Catholic Nursing Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Retreat Centers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Catholic Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Parishes, Missions, Shrines, Oratories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Parish Life Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Priests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Seminarians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Deacons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Religious Communities of Women. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Women Religious . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Religious Communities of Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Men Religious. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Diocesan Priests by Seniority. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Religious Priests by Seniority. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Deacons by Seniority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Necrology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Ready Reference, Parish Phones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

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Overview of the Diocese

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Most Reverend John Stowe, OFM, Conv.

Third Bishop of Lexington

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@ Ordained September 16, 1995

@ Consecrated & installed as Bishop of Lexington on May 5, 2015

Bishop John Stowe was born April 15, 1966, to John R. and Lucy Satelli Stowe of Lorain, Ohio. He attended grade school at Saint Anthony of Padua Parish staffed by the Conventual Franciscans and Lorain Catholic High School.

After a year of community college, Bishop John joined the formation program for the Conventual Franciscan Province of Our Lady of Consolation at Saint Bonaventure Friary in St. Louis, Missouri. During the time of his candidacy he began studies in Philosophy and History at Saint Louis University and completed B.A.s in each in 1990 after an interruption for novitiate. In 1992 he professed solemn vows in the Order of Friars Minor Conventual.

Bishop John earned a Masters of Divinity and a Licentiate in Sacred Theology in the field of Church History from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley (now affiliated with Santa Clara University).

He served as a transitional deacon at Saint David of Wales Parish in Richmond, California, and completed his diaconate at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in El Paso, Texas. In 1995 he was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop A. James Quinn at his home parish of Saint Anthony in Lorain. He was assigned to continue at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church as associate pastor. The parish is at the site of the Ysleta Mission, founded in 1682, and the oldest parish in Texas. It is on the U.S.-Mexico border and includes the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo of the Tigua tribe of Native Americans. Father John would continue as pastor of that parish.

In December of 2002, Bishop John was invited by the Most Reverend Armando X. Ochoa, Bishop of El Paso, to serve the Diocese of El Paso as Moderator of the Curia and Vicar General. He later also served as Chancellor of the diocese. With a lack of priests in the diocese, Bishop John also assumed the role of Administrator of Our Lady of the Valley Parish there while serving in the Chancery.

At the Province Chapter of 2010, Bishop John was elected Vicar Provincial of the Province of Our Lady of Consolation; he resigned from the Chancery in El Paso and became Pastor and Rector of the Basilica and National Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation in Carey, Ohio (Toledo Diocese). He was re-elected vicar at the Chapter of 2014.

During his time in El Paso, Bishop John taught in the Tepeyac Institute for lay ministry, in the permanent diaconate formation programs for the Diocese of Las Cruces and El Paso, and was active in community organizing in an organization called EPISO. He was active in ecumenical and interfaith dialogue and frequently taught jointly with Rabbi Larry Bach of the Reformed Temple Mount Sinai. In the Franciscan Province Bishop John chaired the Peace and Justice Commission and the Finance Commission at different times and served a term as a definitor (provincial counselor) even prior to his election as vicar provincial.

Pope Francis appointed Bishop John Stowe as the Third Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lexington on March 12, 2015.

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Explanation of the Coat of Arms &

Episcopal Motto of Bishop John Stowe

The episcopal heraldic achievement, or bishop's coat of arms, is composed of a shield, that is the central and most important part of the design and tells to whom the design belongs, the external ornamentation, that tells the owner's position or rank, and a motto, placed upon a scroll. By heraldic tradition the design is described (blazoned) as if being done by the bearer with the shield being worn on the arm. Thus, where it applies the terms "sinister" and "dexter" are reversed as the design is viewed from the front.

For the bishop of a diocese, known as an Ordinary, his personal arms are joined (impaled) with the arms of his jurisdiction; in this case the Diocese of Lexington.

The arms of the diocese are composed of three sections (tirced) of red, silver (white) and blue, the national color of the United States. To the left (dexter) the field is red with a sword, erect, that is tip to chief, of silver (white) with the hilt in gold (yellow). The sword is the symbol of Saint Paul, patron of the Diocese of Covington. To the right (heraldic sinister) is a silver (white) field that displays a blue fleur-de-lis, from the arms of the Archdiocese of Louisville. It was from the Covington and Louisville that the Diocese of Lexington was carved. In base is a blue field, to hone "the Blue Grass State" of Kentucky, that displays a silver (white) cross, upon which is a gold (yellow) diadem to honor Christ the King, titular patron of the cathedral-church in the See City.

In the sinister impalement of the design (right

side) are the personal arms of Bishop John Stowe. These are composed of a silver (white) field on which is see a red eagle, the symbol of Saint John, His Excellency's baptismal patron and his religious patron, as his name

within his religious community is also John. Below the eagle is a black Tau cross, emblematic of Saint Francis of Assisi, founder of His Excellency's community, the Order of Friars Minor and it is in black because that is a dominant color of the habit of the Conventual Franciscan. Upon the tau is a green "Mary's Key," that can be seen hanging from the belt of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in her title of "Our Lady of Conso-

lation," whose national shrine Bishop Stowe was rector at the time of his appointment to become a bishop.

For his motto, His Excellency, Bishop Stowe has adopted the Latin phrase "ANNUNTIAMUS VERBUM VITAE." In this case, His Excellency expresses the Scriptural direction about the life in Christ, that it is He who "announces the words of life."

The achievement is completed with the external ornaments that are a gold (yellow) processional cross, that extends above and below the shield, and a pontifical hat, called a galero, with its six tassels, in three rows, on either side of the shield, all in green. These are the heraldic insignia of a prelate of the rank of bishop by instruction of the Holy See, of March 1969.

~ Deacon Paul J. Sullivan

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The Catholic Diocese of Lexington

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The Catholic Diocese of Lexington is . . .

16,423 Square miles

50 Counties

40,159 Members

59 Parishes and missions

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Oratories

36 Active diocesan priests

12 Active religious order priests

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Priests from other dioceses

13 Retired diocesan priests

87 Diocesan deacons

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Deacons from other dioceses

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Parish Life Directors

39 Women religious

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Seminarians

11 Catholic hospitals

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Primary care centers &

healthcare ministries

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Nursing & resident care facility

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Centers for renewal &

spiritual growth

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Six Deaneries of the Diocese of Lexington

FAYETTE DEANERY

BLUEGRASS EAST DEANERY

BIG SANDY/ LICKING DEANERY

BLUEGRASS WEST DEANERY

MOUNTAIN WEST DEANERY

MOUNTAIN EAST DEANERY

FAYETTE DEANERY (All Fayette County parishes)

Dean: Rev. Richard Watson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (859) 252-0738 Alternate: Vacant

The Cathedral of Christ the King Holy Spirit/Newman Center Mary Queen of the Holy Rosary Pax Christi

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton St. Paul St. Peter St. Peter Claver

BLUEGRASS WEST DEANERY

Dean: Rev. Linh Nguyen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (859) 863-3404 Alternate: Vacant

Anderson County St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg Boyle County Sts. Peter and Paul, Danville St. Mary, Perryville Franklin County Good Shepherd, Frankfort Garrard County St. William, Lancaster

Jessamine County St. Luke, Nicholasville Lincoln County St. Sylvester, Ottenheim Mercer County St. Andrew, Harrodsburg Scott County Sts. Francis and John, Georgetown Woodford County St. Leo, Versailles

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