Priest assignments continued

Ascension Parish, Overland Park, and chaplain of St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Overland Park.

Father Travis Mecum, from parochial vicar for Holy Trinity Parish, Lenexa, to parochial vicar for St. Joseph Parish, Shawnee.

Deacon George Rhodes, from completion of seminary formation and ordination to the priesthood of Jesus Christ, to parochial vicar for Most Pure Heart of Mary, Topeka, and chaplain of Washburn Catholic Campus Center, Topeka.

Deacon Timothy Skoch, from completion of seminary formation and ordination to the priesthood of Jesus Christ to parochial vicar for St. Patrick Parish, Kansas City, Kansas, and chaplain of Bishop Ward High School, Kansas City, Kansas.

Father Brent Stull, from co-chaplain of St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Overland Park, to continuing as parochial vicar for Church of the Ascension Parish, Overland Park.

Other

Father Francis Bakyor, from parochial administrator of Immaculate Conception Parish, Louisburg, to retiring from parish administration and returning to priestly ministry in the Diocese of Wa (Ghana).

Father Lazar Carasala, from parochial administrator of St. Joseph Parish in Nortonville, Immaculate Conception Parish in Valley Falls and Corpus Christi Parish, Mooney Creek, to returning to priestly ministry in the Diocese of Nellore (India).

Father Salvador Llamas Diaz, MNM (Missionary Fathers of the Nativity of Mary), from parochial vicar for St. Mary-St. Anthony Parish, Kansas City, Kansas, to reassignment by his religious community to priestly ministry outside of the archdiocese.

Father Agustin Martinez, beginning summer and remote study program for canon law at Catholic University of America, Washington, and continuing as parochial vicar for St. Paul Parish, Olathe.

Father Daniel Morris, from inresidence sacramental assistance to St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center to in-residence sacramental assistance to Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, Shawnee, and continuing as vocation director.

Father Konda Reddy Nusi, MSFS (Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales), from parochial administrator of St. Patrick Parish, Osage City, and St. Patrick Parish, Scranton, to reassignment by his religious community to priestly ministry outside of the archdiocese, effective May 30.

Father Fredy Hernán Pinzón Palacio, from parochial vicar for Blessed Sacrament Parish, Kansas City, Kansas, and Our Lady of Unity Parish, Kansas City,

Kansas, to returning to priestly ministry in the Diocese of Zipaquirá (Colombia).

Father John Riley, from sacramental assistance to Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, Shawnee, to providing sacramental assistance to St. Agnes Parish, Roeland Park, and continuing as vicar general – chancellor.

Father Carter Zielinski, beginning summer and remote study program for canon law at Catholic University of America, Washington, and continuing as pastor of Sacred Heart Parish, Emporia.

Permanent deacons

Deacon Joseph Allen, to state chaplain, Daughters of Isabella, effective May 1, while continuing as chaplain of Catholic Community Hospice, Lenexa, and in diaconal ministry at St. John Paul II Parish, Olathe.

Deacon Keith Geary, from leave of absence from diaconal ministry at Our Lady of Unity Parish, Kansas City, Kansas, to retirement from diaconal ministry, effective May 3.

Deacon Ralph Schramp, from diaconal ministry at Church of the Nativity Parish, Leawood, to retired status, effective February 22, 2023.

Deacon Stanley Sluder, from diaconate ordination (Archdiocese of Santa Fe), to diaconal ministry at St. Benedict Parish, Atchison.