Congratulations Father Sansevere!

We offer our heartfelt congratulations and prayerful best wishes to Stephen Sansevere, who was ordained a priest at the hands of His Excellency, Bishop David O’Connell on Saturday, June 27, at the Co-Cathedral of St. Robert Bellarmine in Freehold.

A Jersey City native, Father Sansevere comes to the Priesthood at age 67. A retired Jersey City police sergeant, Fr. Sansevere was married for nearly 40 years until the death of his wife, Suzanne, in 2017. A member of St. Gabriel’s Parish, Marlboro, he was ordained a permanent deacon for the Diocese of Trenton in 2000. After discerning a call to the priesthood after Suzanne’s death, Bishop O’Connell consented to his ordination to the priesthood after additional theological studies and an assignment as deacon at St. Therese’s Parish, Little Egg Harbor.

The newly ordained Father Sansevere will begin his priestly ministry with the Catholic Community of Hopewell Valley, i.e., the parishes of St. James (Pennington), St. Alphonsus (Hopewell), and St. George (Titusville). Our prayers accompany him that the Lord may bless him...ad multos annos!