General Seminary NYC calls Grace Allentown rector

General Theological Seminary has called Grace Allentown rector Father Patrick Malloy to be professor of Liturgics. At the request of the Grace Church vestry and congregation and with the permission of Bishop Paul and General Seminary, he will continue as rector on a halftime basis. He came to Grace in December 2001 and was installed as rector in June 2002.

“What we have accomplished in just eight years is beyond imagining,” Malloy wrote to parishioners. “How did we ever do it without losing our minds or breaking our backs? The fact that all of us are still standing — and I hope standing taller and stronger — is a phenomenal witness to how invested we are in our common life, common mission, and common prayer ... General Seminary hired me, not because of what I have done, but because of what we have done. That is not false humility. It is the unvarnished truth.

Malloy holds a doctors degree in liturgical studies from Notre Dame as well as masters degrees from Notre Dame and Temple. He is the author of Celebrating the Eucharist, commissioned by Church Publishing in 2008. The publisher has commissioned two further books. He has taught at the graduate level at St. John’s University (Collegeville, MN), the University of Santa Clara and Duquesne University where he directed the graduate program in pastoral ministry.

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[JIm]

A well deserved appointment for a deserving person. Best of luck to you and God's speed.