Cesar Pirateque Stephen Robbins
Bishop Dennis Sullivan will ordain four men to the transitional diaconate on Saturday, May 15, at the Church of Saint Agnes, Our Lady of Hope Parish in Blackwood.
Christopher Myers, Logan Nilsen, Cesar Serrano Pirateque and Stephen Robbins, all finishing Third Theology requirements at their respective seminaries, will all take the next step in their ordination to the priesthood at the 10:30 a.m. liturgy.
Myers, 39 years old, studies at Immaculate Conception Seminary at Seton Hall University in South Orange, NJ. His home parish is Our Lady of Hope, Blackwood.
Nilsen, 26, studies at Saint Joseph Seminary in Yonkers, N.Y., and his home parish is also Our Lady of Hope.
Pirateque, 39, studies at Immaculate Conception, and calls Woodbury Height’s Infant Jesus his home parish.
Robbins, 24, a graduate of Bishop Eustace Preparatory School in Pennsauken, studies at Saint Joseph Seminary, and his home parish is Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine in Lindenwold.
As attendance at the diaconate ordination is by invitation-only due to COVID-19 restrictions, faithful are invited to watch and pray with the diocesan community by visiting a livestream broadcast of the Mass: