Local pastor to transfer to Lehigh Valley

FRACKVILLE – Two local Roman Catholic parishes are losing their pastor to a church in the Lehigh Valley.

Bishop Alfred Schlert of the Diocese of Allentown announced new clergy assignments Sunday.

The new assignments, the diocese said, were “designed to meet the needs of the faithful in the Diocese’s 78 parishes, as well as fulfilling pastoral needs at college campuses, at hospitals, at diocesan high schools, and at prisons and nursing homes.

The decisions were made by Schlert and the Priest Personnel Board and are effective Tuesday, June 17.

Reverend Giuseppe C. Esposito, currently Pastor at Saint Charles Borromeo Parish in Ashland and Saint Joseph the Worker Parish in Frackville, is being transferred to Saint Anne Parish in Bethlehem. He will remain pastor.

In his place, Reverend Guency Isaac will be parochial administrator for the parishes in Ashland and Frackville.

He was previously chaplain for Notre Dame High School in Easton and sacramental ministry for Lafayette College, also in Easton.

A parochial administrator is a title given to a priest entrusted with the pastoral care of a parish for the first time.

Another assignment announced Sunday is the addition of Chaplain at Marian Catholic High School to Rev. Robert T. Finlan’s duties. Finlan is pastor at Saint Richard Parish in Barnesville and Saint John XXIII Parish in Tamaqua.

In McAdoo, Rev. Barnabas Shayo, A.J., received the title of Pastor at All Saints Parish. He was previously parochial administrator.

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