Mt St Marys Seminary

As it is too difficult for me to keep up with all the changes in faculty, please go to the Official Seminary Faculty and Staff Page to view the current faculty

I will use this page to highligh faculty news and keep contacts for former faculty members.

Seminary Faculty News

• 2011 - Rev. Brett Brannen (S'91), has stepped down as Vice Rector, returning to his diocese will be pastor of St. Matthew Parish in Statesboro, GA.
  Fr. Brannen is author of To Save a Thousand Souls

  2011 - Rev. Kenneth Brighenti, a priest of the Diocese of Metuchen and part of the Seminary faculty since 2009, is now Vice Rector for Pastoral Field Education.

  Fr. Brighenti is author of Catholicism For Dummies, Saints For Dummies, John Paul II For Dummies

  2009 - Fr. Frederick Miller published The Grace of Ars: Reflections on the Life and Spirituality of St. John Vianney

Some faculty emails

Seminary Staff Emails

In Memoriam - RIP with our prayers

Fr. Lou Kennedy (Diocese of Brooklyn), Dean of Men and Director of Pastoral Formation 1989-1994, died on August 13, 2011

Fr. Robert Zylla O.S.C., Professor of Therology 1971 to 2009, died July 29, 2009. (Obituary from Diocese of Arlington)

Sr. Joan Gormley, Professor of Sacred Scripture from 1987 to 2007, died Oct. 19, 2007.

Msgr. Richard M. McGuinness, Seminary Rector from 1979 to 1987, died August 09, 2006. (Obituary from the Archdiocese of Newark)

Fr. James H Brennan, S.S. professor of Canon Law 1971-1993, died Feb. 23, 2006 (It would have been his 75th Anniversary as a priest this year.)

Monsignor Hugh J. Phillips (C '31, S '35), President and Teacher, beloved Chaplin, died July 11, 2004

Rev. Carl Fives (C '38, S '42), college Faculty Member and Administrator, died March 14, 2004

Fr. Robert Justin Hennessey, O.P., professor of systematics from 1986 to 1992, died December 7, 2003.

Msgr. Carroll E. Satterfield, who taught moral and dogmatic theology from 1965 to 1996, died July 26, 2003.

Monsignor Kenneth W. Roeltgen, Rector 1988-1997, died April 7, 2002

Dr. Herbert Stoup, Counseling, died October 10, 2000

Reverend Frederick M. Jelly, professor of Systematics and Mariology, died April 14, 2000

Father Thomas J. Byrd, long time faculty member at the Seminary and University, died January 5, 2000.

Former Faculty

Fr. Don Haggerty, professor of Moral Theology

St Josephs Seminary, Dunwoodie; Yonkers, NY 10704

Rev. Leonard Obloy, professor of Scripture

Diocese of Cleveland, St. William parish, www.saintwilliamparish.org

Rev. James Conn, SJ, professor of Canon Law

Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, jjconnsj@aol.com

Dr. Pamela Jackson, professor of Liturgy

Notre Dame, pamela.e.jackson.95@nd.edu

Fr. Jerry Francik, College Chaplin

Cathedral of Mary Our Queen; Baltimore MD gfrancik@archbalt.org

Fr. David Pietropaoli, professor of Systematics

Gilman School in Baltimore, dpietropaoli@gilman.edu

Rev. Michael Wensing, professor of Scripture

Pastor at St. Thomas More, Brookings, South Dakota - Diocese of Sioux Falls

Bishop Paul Coakley, Spiritual Director

pscoakley@yahoo.com

A priest of Witchita, Kansas was appointed Archbishop of Oklahoma City Dec. 16, 2010 (ordained Bishop on Dec. 28, 2004).

Rev. Msgr. Paul Langsfeld, Systematics / Vice Rector

Pastor of St. Stephen Martyr parish, Washington D.C.

plangsfeld@pcj.edu

Rev. Albert Ledoux, Church History

Returned to the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown in May, 2004

frledoux@yahoo.com

Bishop Kevin Rhoades, Rector

Ordained Bishop of his home diocese of Harrisburg, PA on Dec. 9, 2004, appointed the bishop of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend (IN) on Oct. 6, 2009.

Rev. Raymond Harris Chaplain, Pastoral Field Education

fr.raymondharris@gmail.com or 50harris@cua.edu - received his JCL, returned to his home diocese of Baltimore to be pastor of St. Mary in Govans.

Fr. Salvatore "Sam" Lamendola (S'90), Pastoral Field Education

slamendo@msmary.edu - Diocese of Greensburg, now Pastor of St. Ambrose, Avonmmore PA and St. Matthew, Saltsburg PA

Rev. Brett Brannen (S'91, Diocese of Savannah), Vice Rector

Pastor of St. Matthew Parish in Statesboro, GA

Author of To Save a Thousand Souls

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