Office of the Permanent Diaconate
Please direct inquiries to:
Co-Director: Mr. Leon Suprenant
(913) 647-0358 direct line
(913) 721-1570
Co-Director: Father Gary Pennings, V.G.
Associate Director: Father Gregory Hammes
Links to more information:
Frequently Asked Questions About Deacons
7 Habits of Highly Effective Deacon Candidates
– by Leon Suprenant
Deacon article from “The Leaven”
– by Leon Suprenant
For questions on the diaconate,
email diaconate@archkck.org.
Ordination of 17 Permanent Deacons
April 9, 2011
(Photos courtesy of The Leaven)
Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. . . . Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this scripture he told him the good news of Jesus. . . . And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.
–Acts 8:26-40
“Dedicated to duties of charity and of administration, let deacons be mindful of the admonition of Blessed Polycarp: ‘Be merciful, diligent, walking according to the truth of the Lord, who became the servant of all.'”
–Vatican II, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, no. 29 (1964)