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Hello!

I was in Newark, NJ, today, and after getting the wrong liturgy time for an Eastern Catholic church, ended up in St. Casimir's for a marvelously devotional Novus Ordo mass in Polish.

A bishop said the liturgy, but he wasn't listed in the bulletin, and a Google search turned up nothing - the parish website didn't have contact e-mail info, either. I didn't stick around to ask anyone because I was worried about being towed.

I'm pretty certain he is a Polish national, or at the very least, not a native English speaker and not American. And it seemed like a pretty big deal that he was there. Since I'm not on any Latin Catholic fora, I figured someone on Byzcath in the greater Newark area might have heard something.

Anyone know who this bishop might be?

Thanks,
Booth

It probably was not the Most Reverend Paul Gregory Bootkoski, Bishop of the Diocese of Metuchen, since Newark is not in his Diocese. He is definately an American native speaker of English, but I'm pretty sure he speaks Polish as well.

My Matushka is a teacher in one of the Parochial schools of his Diocese. I've met him and he is a very nice man.

Fr David Straut

In case anyone was curious, I was finally able to get hold of the pastor ... the bishop was Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski. He evidently heads a pontifical council.

Archbishop Zygmunt Zimovski is President of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers.

Booth,

I was indeed curious - and frustrated, since I had searched everywhere looking for some indication as to whom it might be (my insatiable curiousity about such minutia will be the death of me yet ). Thanks for supplying the answer.

Many years,

Neil (ps, got your email and will make that correction this week - thanks for thinking to do that )