By Florida Catholic staff - Florida Catholic
MIAMI | Canon law (495.1) requires that every diocese establish a Presbyteral Council, “that is, a group of priests which, representing the presbyterium, is to be like a senate of the bishop and which assists the bishop in the governance of the diocese…”
Canon 497 determines how the council members are selected: “The priests themselves are freely to elect about half…; some priests must be ex officio members, that is, members who are to belong to the council by reason of the office entrusted to them; the diocesan bishop is freely entitled to appoint others.”
This is the list of newly elected and appointed members of the Presbyteral Council of the Archdiocese of Miami, effective at the end of the September.
President: Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski
Chairman: Father Paul Vuturo
Secretary: Father Michael Hoyer
Bishop Peter Baldacchino
Msgr.
Chanel Jeanty
Father Christopher Marino, V.F.
Msgr. Roberto Garza
Father
Emanuele De Nigris
Father Richard Vigoa
- Northwest Broward Deanery: Msgr. Michael A. Souckar
- Northeast Broward Deanery: Father Michael Greer, V.F.
- Southeast Broward Deanery: Father Daniel Kubala
- Southwest Broward Deanery: Father Steve O’Hala
- Northwest Dade Deanery: Father José Alfaro
- Northeast Dade Deanery: Father Reginald Jean-Mary
- West Dade Deanery: Father Marcos Somarriba, V.F.
- East Dade Deanery: Father José Luis Menéndez
- South Dade Deanery: Msgr. Pablo Navarro, V.F.
- Monroe Deanery: Father John Baker, V.F.
- Age Group I: Father José Alfaro
- Age Group II: Father Michael Hoyer
- Age Group III: Msgr. James Fetscher
- Incardinated Priests: Msgr. Pablo Navarro
- Incardinated Retired Priests: Father Patrick O’Neill
- Non-Incardinated Priests: Father Matthew Thundathil
- Religious Priests: Father Stanislaw Rakiej, SChr
- Appointed by the Archbishop:
Father
Christopher Marino, V.F.
Father José Alvarez, V.F.
Msgr. Tomás Marín, V.F.
Father
Thomas O’Dwyer, V.F.
Father Ernest Biriruka, V.F.
Father Miguel Gómez, V.F.
Father
Paul Vuturo.
