2025 Ordination to the Permanent Diaconate

Bishop Vásquez will ordain 11 men to the permanent diaconate on March 1 at 10:30 a.m. at San José Parish in Austin. 

• Roger Bjork: St. John Vianney, Round Rock
• Aurelio Cadena: St. Mary Catholic Center, College Station
• Gilbert Gutierrez: Santa Cruz, Buda
• Kyle Hammons: St. Mary of the Assumption, String Prairie
• Kyle Janda: Sacred Heart, La Grange
• Hector Medrano: St. Paul, Smithville
• Nasario Perez: St. Albert the Great, Austin
• Joseph Pettibon II: St. Thomas Aquinas, College Station
• Paul Nathan Sharp: San Jose, Austin
• John Swanson: Emmaus, Lakeway
• Robert Tavarez: St. Vincent de Paul, Austin

In addition, one man from this 2025 diaconate class, Michael Owens from St. Thomas More, was invited to be ordained in Rome on February 23 as part of the Jubilee of Deacons.

Unable to attend the March 1 Ordination? Stream the Mass here.