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Pastoral Staff - Priests ~ |
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Father Joe Rankin ~ Pastor
Email:
frjoe@saintrita. |
Father Joe Rankin
is from Louisville and grew up in the west
and
south ends of the city having attended grade school at
St. Thomas
More, Sacred Heart, St. John Vianny, and later at
St. Mary in
Lanesville, Indiana. He went to high school
seminary with the Comboni
Missionaries,
later going to college
at Xavier University in Ohio and completing
his
theological
training in Rome. He was ordained to the priesthood in
1979.
After ordination he supervised high school seminarians for
four
years
and then was assigned to the foreign missions in
Esmeradlas,
Ecuador.
While there, he was pastor of a parish
and director of seminarian
formation
and youth ministry. From
there he was transferred to Kitchener,
Ontario
where he did
mission and vocation promotion. Since Father Joe’s return to
Louisville in 1990 he has been
the associate pastor at St.
Athanasius, pastor at St. Monica and then St. Francis
of Assisi.
He was assigned to St. Rita on June 22, 2005. |
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Father
Toan Do ~ Associate
Email:
tdo@saintrita.net
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Father Toan Do was born in Saigon,
Vietnam. Toan and his
family immigrated to the U.S. as political refugees in 1993.
Louisville has since been his home. In 1994 he was accepted
to the seminary program for the Archdiocese of Louisville.
After completing two semesters in the intensive English as
a Second Language program at the University of Louisville,
he studied at St. Meinrad College, Indiana in the fall of 1995.
In the fall of 1997, Toan went to the Catholic University of
America, Washington, DC and completed his graduate studies
in philosophy. In the Fall of 2000 he began his theological
studies at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.
Toan was ordained a priest at the Cathedral of the Assumption
in Louisville in 2004 and began his pastoral ministry at St.
Joseph Proto-Cathedral in Bardstown, Kentucky. 2006 found
him back in Louvain and then Münster, Germany. Recently he
completed his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Sacred Scripture
and also the Doctor of Sacred Theology (S.T.D.) in theology.
Father Toan is now assigned to Sts. Rita and Luke as part-time
associate pastor and to St. Meinrad School of Theology as
part-time
professor and spiritual director. |
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Louisville, KY 40219 
