Posted November 11, 2020

Seminarians, including several from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, received the call to candidacy for ordination to the priesthood during a Mass celebrated by Archbishop Nelson Pérez in St. Martin’s Chapel Nov. 4, the feast of the seminary’s patron, St. Charles Borromeo. The feast capped days of solemn celebration for the St. Charles Seminary community, including the annual Forty Hours devotion and celebration of All Saints Day, Nov. 1. (Photos by Zinjin Iglesia)

Candidates for the Philadelphia Archdiocese included Joseph Thanth Ky Bui, Philip Cheung, Bernard Okechukwu Ekeagwu, Max McGallagher, Gregory Harold Miller and Brendan Randall Zehner; also for Philadelphia with the Neo-Catechumenal Way were Juan Pablo Builes and Jacob Sanz.

  • In this November 11, 2020 image, seminarians process into St. Martin’s Chapel at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood. The seminary will launch a new English as a Second Language (ESL) curriculum in September 2021 to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse student body, a third of which is “non-Caucasian.” (Sarah Webb)

  • Several seminarians studying for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia prepare to receive the call to candidacy from Archbishop Nelson Pérez.

  • Led by the processional cross, the seminary community recesses from the chapel at the conclusion of the Mass.

  • Philadelphia seminarians who received the call to candidacy for priestly ordination pose after the Mass with (from left) Bishop Timothy Senior, rector of St. Charles Seminary; Archbishop Nelson Pérez; and Father Patrick Brady, seminary vice rector.