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Seven Priests Ordained Marks Largest Class Since 1962

On Saturday, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend celebrated the ordination of seven new priests. This was the largest ordination class the diocese has seen in almost sixty years.

Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades made opening remarks in three different languages as two of the seven to be ordained, Reverend Paolo Degasperi and Reverend Augustine Onuoha, are from Italy and Nigeria.

Dozens of priests from northeast Indiana, visitors, and family members gathered at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Fort Wayne to witness the soon-to-be priests make four promises, to live lives of prayer, simplicity, chastity, and obedience. Bishop Rhoades asked each of the seven men, “do you promise respect and obedience to me and my successors?”

The mention of successors is key as the last year seven priests were ordained in the Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese was 1962. Men of the class of 1963 were ordained in December of ‘62 because of scheduling around the Second Vatican Council, announced and begun in Rome that same year. Reverend David Carkenord, who is one of the surviving members of the ‘62 class, delayed retirement until 2018 and served under four different bishops. He was thrilled to see 2021’s group of seven. “Ever since our ordination, I’ve looked forward to a time where there’d be as many,” Carkenord said, reflecting on a day he remembers well. “I can remember the ceremony very vividly, scared to death going through it because of what it meant, and hoping for the best.”

Four of the seven priests have been assigned to churches in Fort Wayne. Reverend Michael Ammer will head to St. Jude on Pemberton Drive. Reverend Degasperi was assigned to St. John the Baptist on Fairfield Avenue. Reverend Dan Koehl will head to St. Charles Borromeo on Trier Road and Reverend Keeton Lockwood will have assignments at two churches, St. Therese and St. Henry on Fort Wayne’s south side.

Reverend Benjamin Landrigan will head to St. Vincent de Paul in Elkhart. Reverend Onuoha has been assigned to St. Pius X in Granger and Reverend Logan Parrish will head to St. John the Evangelist in Goshen. All of their assignments become effective June 21.

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Soon-to-Be Priest: ‘I Can’t Wait to Get Started’

Deacon Zane Langenbrunner, who will be ordained to the priesthood June 3, says he was drawn to his vocation by ‘a love for Jesus in the Eucharist.’

Bishop Kevin Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, will ordain Deacon Zane Langenbrunner, 29, and six other men to the priesthood on June 3. 

Langenbrunner was engaged to be married in his senior year in college and was planning on a career in speech pathology but discerned the seminary instead and has spent the last four years studying for the priesthood in Rome. 

In a late-May interview as he prepared to return to Indiana, Deacon Langenbrunner told the Register, “I am immensely grateful to God for his goodness, mercy and faithfulness. He invited me in love to respond to his call to be a priest, then gave me all the grace and support that I needed to respond with a loving ‘Yes’ of my own.”

While ordination is a milestone, it is still a beginning, he believes, as “I have so much to learn, so many ways to grow, so much of myself that remains to be conformed to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I can’t wait to get started.”

He is “ready to lay down my life for Christ in a definitive way,” he continued, and quoting St. Paul, he declared, “It is no longer I who live; Christ is living in me” (Galatians 2:20).

Langenbrunner was born and raised in Mishawaka, Indiana, a “wonderful community” that borders South Bend. His father is a retired factory worker and his mother is a former home daycare operator; he has one brother. 

His was a practicing Catholic family, he said, with his parents positively influenced by “Christ Renews His Parish” retreats and he and his brother by their involvement in the youth group “Antioch.” 

He said, “These things led us all to a more intentional practice of our Catholic faith.”

Like many others in the ordination Class of 2023 , he was drawn to the priesthood, he said, by “a love for Jesus in the Eucharist.”

He recalled an incident that happened in church at age 5: “Mom was trying to keep me from squirming in the pew during the Eucharistic Prayer, and I remember her pointing toward the altar and whispering to me, ‘Look, Zane. Every Sunday when we come to Mass, a miracle happens on that altar.’ Those words have stayed with me ever since.”

When he was a little older, Langenbrunner began serving at the altar. 

His father, Michael, recalled, “Zane loved the Mass and had a great interest in the hymns of the day. He had a toy keyboard and would come home and try to figure out how to play them. We were impressed, but never had any idea that it would lead to the priesthood.”

Langenbrunner spent much of his youth attending public school, and his extracurricular activities included sports, music, choir and theater. In college, he was active in a campus Newman Center and got to know some Fellowship of Catholic University Students missionaries. He met his fiancée amid his Catholic activities, but she broke off the engagement before graduation. 

Seeking direction, he visited a convent of the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration to make a daily Holy Hour. 

“It was during these moments of prayer with Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament — at a time of transition and uncertainty in my life — that I first heard his invitation to become a priest,” he explained. 

“To make Jesus known and loved in the Eucharist — that is the thing that initially attracted my heart and has kept me going these past six years [in seminary].”

He said he was also influenced by his devout Catholic grandmother Jean, who was “always praying the Rosary and treating everyone with such attention, affection and love.”

Father Andrew Budzinski, diocesan vocation director, has found Langenbrunner to be a good fit for the priesthood. “Zane is a very joyful man and always has a smile and engages in a friendly and interested manner with all whom he comes into contact. He has a very infectious happiness, which will draw many people to Christ. His obvious love for people will be a powerful bridge for bringing people to Christ.”

He added that the soon-to-be priest has demonstrated a talent for foreign languages and with an advanced degree he is earning in sacred Scripture, “I expect he will be a very effective teacher and preacher of the Scriptures.”

Langenbrunner studied for two years at Mount St. Mary’s in Maryland, followed by four years at the Pontifical North American College in Rome. “I have had to confront a lot of my own shortcomings and fears during my time in the Eternal City,” he said, “and I am returning with a lively trust that God can and will provide for all that I need — no matter where he might send me.”

Music continues to be an important influence in his life. In the eighth grade, he participated in a life-changing confirmation retreat, for example, and explained, “Prayer with praise-and-worship music was a significant part of that. Singing to God and for God opened my heart to a radical encounter with his love.”

He played the drums and sang in musicals in high school and was part of a rock band while in seminary, performing contemporary music for special events. Most notably, at the recent Easter vigil Mass with Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Basilica, he was tapped to sing the Exsultet or Easter Proclamation. 

Watch starting at 23:30

He recalled, “It is the single greatest honor of my life, and I am still so humbled that I got to do it.  In many ways, it was a culminating experience for me: exercising ministry as a deacon, using the gift of music that God has blessed me with and cultivated these many years, to glorify him and lead his people in prayer and worship.”

He reminds young people considering a vocation to the priesthood or religious life that “to do the will of God requires love and trust. I was not ready to respond to his call to priesthood until I had developed trust that, no matter what happens, no matter how much my plans fall apart, the Lord would still be with me. Only when I could honestly offer him my entire future did I finally recognize the vocation to the priesthood that he had laid on my heart.”

He added, “The best place to grow in love and trust is in prayer, especially prayer before the Eucharist. So start making a daily Holy Hour, and learn how to love and trust the Lord Jesus, who is present there before you.”

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Watch and pray during Deacon Langenbrunner’s ordination to the priesthood on Saturday, June 3, 11am Eastern time via livestream on the diocese’s homepage ( DioceseFWSB.org ).

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Jim Graves Jim Graves is a Catholic writer and editor living in Newport Beach, California. He previously served as Managing Editor for the Diocese of Orange Bulletin, the official newspaper of the Diocese of Orange, California. His work has appeared in the National Catholic Register, Our Sunday Visitor, Cal Catholic Daily and Catholic World Report.

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Summary of 2023 Priest Assignment Changes for the Diocese of Orange

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Bishop Vann is pleased to announce the following appointments, effective July 1, 2023

REV. JOSEPH LUAN NGUYEN From Pastor, Our Lady of La Vang Church, Santa Ana To Pastor, St. Columban Church, Garden Grove

REV. MSGR. TUAN JOSEPH PHAM From Pastor, St. Columban Church, Garden Grove To Pastor, San Antonio de Padua del Cañon Church, Anaheim Hills

REV. VINCENT HUNG PHAM From Director, Vietnamese Catholic Center, Santa Ana To Pastor, St. Bonaventure Church, Huntington Beach

VERY REV. DANIEL BRIAN READER From Chancellor and Director of Priests’ Personnel, Pastoral Center, Garden Grove To Pastor, St. Angela Merici Church, Brea

REV. QUAN DINH TRAN From Administrator, St. Hedwig Church, Los Alamitos To Pastor, St. Hedwig Church, Los Alamitos

PASTORS RENEWED OR EXTENDED: REV. BILL TUYEN CAO From Pastor, St. Anthony Claret Church, Anaheim To Pastor Renewed, St. Anthony Claret Church, Anaheim

REV. MSGR. DOUGLAS JAMES COOK From Pastor, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Newport Beach To Pastor Renewed, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Newport Beach

REV. EDWARD LEE POETTGEN From Pastor, St. Boniface Church, Anaheim To Pastor Renewed, St. Boniface Church, Anaheim

REV. MICHAEL M. PONTARELLI, O.S.M. From Pastor, St. Juliana Falconieri Church, Fullerton To Pastor Renewed, St. Juliana Falconieri Church, Fullerton ADMINISTRATORS/ DIRECTORS: REV. WAYNE ADAJAR From Parochial Vicar, Holy Spirit Church, Fountain Valley To Parochial Administrator, St. Pius V Church, Buena Park

REV. MARTIN PHUOC BUI From Parochial Vicar, St. Nicholas Church, Laguna Woods To Parochial Administrator, St. Nicholas Church, Laguna Woods

REV. ROBERT PETER CAPONE From Campus Minister, University of San Diego, San Diego To Parochial Administrator, St. Joachim Church, Costa Mesa

REV. WILLIAM BREWER GOLDIN From Parochial Vicar, St. Vincent de Paul Church, Huntington Bch. To Parochial Administrator, Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, La Habra

REV. JOSEPH THAI NGUYEN From Parochial Vicar, Our Lady of La Vang Church, Santa Ana To Director, Vietnamese Catholic Center, Santa Ana

REV. MICHAEL DUC NGUYEN From Parochial Vicar, St. Cecilia Church, Tustin To Parochial Administrator Pro-Tem, Santa Clara de Asís Church, Yorba Linda, Effective Feb. 1, 2023

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REV. STEVEN G. SALLOT From Pastor, Our Lady Queen of Angels Church, Newport Beach

St. John Vianney Chapel remaining under the Administration of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Newport Beach ______________________________________________________

REV. LUÍS GERARDO SEGURA From Parochial Vicar, St. Polycarp Church, Stanton To Parochial Administrator, St. Joseph Church, Santa Ana

REV. KIET ANH TA From Parochial Vicar, St. Thomas More Church, Irvine To Parochial Administrator, Our Lady of La Vang Church, Santa Ana

PAROCHIAL VICARS: REV. SAÚL ALBA-INFANTE From Parochial Administrator, St. Joseph Church, Santa Ana To Parochial Vicar, St. Polycarp Church, Stanton

REV. ERIALDO RAMÍREZ ALFARO From Parochial Vicar, St. Cecilia Church, Tustin To Parochial Vicar, St. Norbert Church, Orange

REV. RUDOLPH ALUMAM From Parochial Vicar, Holy Family Church, Orange To Parochial Vicar, St. Joseph Church, Santa Ana

REV. GABRIEL ATIDOO From Diocese of Navrongo–Bolgatanga, Ghana To Parochial Vicar, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, Newport Beach

REV. EDWARD GERARD BECKER From Pastor, Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, La Habra To Parochial Vicar, Holy Trinity Church, Ladera Ranch

VERY REV. ERNEST SCOTT BORGMAN From Judicial Vicar, Tribunal and Office of Canonical Services, Garden Grove and Formation Faculty, Mt. Angel Seminary, OR To Parochial Vicar, Our Lady of Fatima Church, San Clemente and Episcopal Vicar for Philanthropy

REV. NAM LINH DOAN From Parochial Vicar, St. Norbert Church, Orange To Parochial Vicar, St. Anthony Claret Church, Anaheim

REV. HUMBERTO CRUZ FLORES, O.A.R. From Pastor, Guardian Angel Church, El Paso, Texas To Parochial Vicar, Our Lady of the Pillar Church, Santa Ana, effective Feb. 1, 2023

REV. JAIMELITO GEALAN, SVD From Society of the Divine Word, Philippines, Southern Province To Parochial Vicar, St. Irenaeus Church, Cypress

REV. RANDY GUILLEN From Parochial Administrator, St. Angela Merici Church, Brea To Parochial Vicar, Mission Basilica San Juan Capistrano, SJC

REV. MANUEL LOPEZ From Parochial Vicar, Mission Basilica San Juan Capistrano To Parochial Vicar, St. Angela Merici Church, Brea

REV. PAW TUN LWIN From Pastor, St. Pius V Church, Buena Park To Parochial Vicar, Our Lady Queen of Angels Church, Newport Beach

REV. FRANCIS CHUNG KAY NG From Parochial Vicar, St. Angela Merici Church, Brea To Parochial Vicar, St. Timothy Church, Laguna Niguel

REV. JOSEPH DUNG NGUYEN From Parochial Vicar, Vietnamese Catholic Center, Santa Ana; Part-time Parochial Vicar, IHM Church, Santa Ana To Parochial Vicar, St. Barbara Church, Santa Ana

REV. THANH-TAI PETER NGUYEN From Parochial Vicar Part-time, Christ Our Savior Church, Santa Ana and Parochial Vicar Part-time, St. Joseph Church, Santa Ana To Parochial Vicar, Christ Our Savior Church, Santa Ana

REV. DAVID ALAN OTTO From Parochial Vicar, St. Mary Church, Fullerton To Parochial Vicar, St. Vincent de Paul Church, Huntington Beach

REV. HIEN VAN PHAM, S.V.D. From Society of the Divine Word, Riverside To Parochial Vicar, Our Lady of La Vang Church, Santa Ana

REV. TUAN VAN PHAM From Parochial Vicar, St. Kilian Church, Mission Viejo To Parochial Vicar, St. Columban Church, Garden Grove

REV. MARCO HERNANDEZ QUINTANILLA From Parochial Vicar, St. Edward the Confessor Church, Dana Point To Parochial Vicar, Santiago de Compostela Church, Lake Forest

REV. ARISTOTLE GEORGE QUAN From Parochial Vicar, San Francisco Solano Church, Rancho Santa Margarita To Parochial Vicar, St. Edward the Confessor Church, Dana Point

REV. JOSEPH VINCENT SQUILLACIOTI From Parochial Vicar, St. Edward the Confessor Church, Dana Point To Parochial Vicar, Holy Spirit Church, Fountain Valley REV. ARUNDAS THOMAS From Diocese of Quilon, India To Parochial Vicar, St. Mary Church, Fullerton

REV. CHARLES TRAN From Parochial Vicar, Holy Trinity Church, Ladera Ranch To Parochial Vicar, Holy Family Church, Orange

REV. HOA XUAN TRAN From Parochial Vicar, St. Bonaventure Church, Huntington Beach To Parochial Vicar, St. Cecilia Church, Tustin

REV. THOMAS HENRY TRAN From Parochial Vicar, Our Lady Queen of Angels Church, Newport Beach To Parochial Vicar, St. Thomas More Church, Irvine

REV. DANH NGOC TRINH From Parochial Vicar, St. Barbara Church, Santa Ana To Parochial Vicar Part-time, Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Santa Ana; Remaining Parochial Vicar, St. Barbara Church, Santa Ana

REV. MAURO TINOCO TRUJILLO From Parochial Vicar, St. Irenaeus Church, Cypress To Parochial Vicar, St. Edward the Confessor Church, Dana Point

REV. ANTHONY HIEN VU From Parochial Vicar, St. Barbara Church, Santa Ana To Parochial Vicar, St. Columban Church, Garden Grove

REV. MARTIN DUC ANH VU From Parochial Vicar, Santiago de Compostela Church, Lake Forest To Parochial Vicar, St. Cecilia Church, Tustin

REV. PAUL HOA VU From Parochial Vicar Part-time, St. Columban Church, Garden Grove To Parochial Vicar Part-time, St. Barbara Church, Santa Ana Remaining Adjutant Judicial Vicar, Canonical Services, Garden Grove NEWLY ORDAINED: REV. IAN GASTON From Mt. Angel Seminary, St. Benedict, Oregon To Parochial Vicar, St. Irenaeus Church, Cypress

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REV. MICHAEL PATRICK HANIFIN From Pastor, St. Joachim Church, Costa Mesa To Senior Priest, St. Joachim Church, Costa Mesa and Chaplain for Neo-Catechumenal Way

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REV. FLORANTE MOREN, A.M. From Chaplain, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton To Chaplain, Santa Margarita Catholic High School, Rancho Santa Margarita

REV. CHINNAPPAN MUDIYAPPAN, O.S.M. From Aikiya Annai Province of the Servites, India To Chaplain, Servite High School, Anaheim In residence at Servite Community of St. Philip Benizi, Links House, Buena Park.

REV. BENJAMIN PHILIP TRAN From Parochial Vicar, Our Lady of Fatima Church, San Clemente To Chaplain, University of California Irvine, Irvine In Residence at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, Irvine

RETIRED: REV. JOHN LE VECKE From Leave of Absence To Retired Priest Status. In current residence Effective October 1, 2022

REV. KENNETH ALLEN SCHMIT From Parochial Administrator Extended, St. John Vianney Chapel, Balboa Island To Retired Priest Status. In private residence Effective June 30, 2023

LEAVE OF ABSENCE/SICK LEAVE: REV. FRED KEVIN BAILEY From Pastor, Santa Clara de Asis Church, Yorba Linda To Administrative Leave from ministry through June 30, 2024

REV. EFRAÍN FLORES From Senior Priest, St. Anthony Claret Church, Anaheim To Sick Leave, effective Nov. 19, 2022 In residence at St. Anne Church, Santa Ana

RETURNING TO RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES: REV. THOMAS DEVINE, O.A.R. From Parochial Vicar, Our Lady of the Pillar Church, Santa Ana To Order of Augustinian Recollects, Montebello, CA

REV. AARON GALVIZO, A.M. From Parochial Vicar, St. Irenaeus Church, Cypress To Alagad ni Maria Religious Community, Diocese of Camden, New Jersey

REV. EVAN WILLIAM SIMINGTON From Parochial Administrator, St. John Henry Newman Church, Irvine, In-residence at St. Timothy Church, Lake Forest, CA To Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, Outside diocese

REV. JOHN-FRANCIS TOAN VU, SJ From Chaplain, Campus Ministry, University of California Irvine, Irvine To Jesuits Western Province, Portland, Oregon

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June 7, 2021 // Bishop

New priest assignments.

The Most Reverend Kevin C. Rhoades, Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, has made the following assignments of priests, effective June 21, 2021:

Reverend Michael Ammer, to Parochial Vicar, St. Jude Parish, Fort Wayne.

Reverend Paolo Degasperi, to Parochial Vicar, St. John the Baptist Parish, Fort Wayne, and part-time Chaplain at Bishop Luers High School, Fort Wayne.

Reverend Daniel Koehl, to Parochial Vicar, St. Charles Borromeo Parish, Fort Wayne, and part-time Chaplain of Catholic Students at Purdue Fort Wayne.

Reverend Benjamin Landrigan, to Parochial Vicar, St. Vincent de Paul Parish, Elkhart.

Reverend Keeton Lockwood , to Parochial Vicar, St. Therese Parish, Fort Wayne, and Parochial Vicar, St. Henry Parish, Fort Wayne.

Reverend Augustine Onuoha, to Parochial Vicar, St. Pius X Parish, Granger, and part-time Chaplain at Saint Joseph High School, South Bend.

Reverend Logan Parrish, to Parochial Vicar, St. John the Evangelist Parish, Goshen.

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