Pastoral Assignments 2025-2026, First Batch

Pastoral Assignments for 2025-2026

Provincial Announces 1st Batch of "Obediences"

On April 24, Fr. Dominic Tran, provincial of the Salesians' New Rochelle Province, announced the 1st assignments for the pastoral year that will begin on July 1.

Fr. Jack Janko

Two directors completing 3-year terms have been named to new terms, 3d terms in each instance:  Fr. Jack Janko for the SDB community of East Boston, which operates the Salesian Boys & Girls Club of East Boston and assists in several parishes and other local ministries; and Fr. John Nazzaro for the SDB community of Orange, N.J., which includes the province's house of formation for candidates and newly professed Salesians as well as Our Lady of the Valley Parish.

Fr. John Nazzaro

The province's vocation director, Fr. Steve DeMaio, will move from the provincial house in New Rochelle to St. Benedict Parish in Etobicoke, Ont. (a Toronto suburb), to assist with vocation ministry in Canada.

Fr. Sean McEwen, currently the pastor in Etobicoke, will move to New Rochelle and assume direction of the province's vocation ministry.  Fr. Sean is also on the provincial council, and now he won't have to travel to attend its meetings; on the other hand, he'll do a lot more traveling to promote SDB vocations.

Fr. Sean's place at St. Benedict's will be filled by Fr. Adaikala Raja John (as administrator, not pastor).  Fr. John relocate from Edmonton, where he has been pastor of St. John Bosco Parish, and Fr. Chinnapparaj Desam will become administrator of that parish.  Fr. Desam has been serving at St. Charles Parish in Edmonton.