HOLY ROSARY CHURCH
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Reverend Lydio F. Tomasi, C.S., Ph.D. |
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Father Tomasi's origins are in Vincenza, Italy, where he was born on 6 February 1938, where he attended public elementary school. He entered the Scalabrinian Seminary for high school in Brescia and college in Como. After his noviciate in Treviso, Father Tomasi attended the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome, where he earned his Philosophy and Theology Licenses and was ordained priest by Cardinal Confalonieri on 16 December 1962. Father Tomasi has two sisters and two brothers and his 98 year old mother still living in Italy. His younger brother, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, is the Permanent Observer of the Holy See at the United Nations and Specialized Organizations in Geneva, Switzerland. After his ordination, Father Tomasi was assigned as instructor of Systematic Philosophy and History at St. Charles Seminary in Staten Island, New York. In 1967, Father Tomasi served as Parochial Vicar at the Church of St. Michael in New Haven, Connecticut. From 1968 to 2001 Father Tomasi directed the Center for Migration Studies of New York. During his tenure at CMS, Father Tomasi was the founding editor of Migration World Magazine, a bi-monthly review of current issues in migration and migration policy. He was the editor of the annual volume, In Defense of the Alien, the proceedings of an annual conference held on immigrants' rights and immigration policy. In nominating Father Tomasi for the Distinguished Career Award of the American Sociological Association's International Migration Section in August 2005 in Philadelphia, Douglas Massey, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, stated:
In 1985 the President of the Republic of Italy bestowed on Father Tomasi the title of Cavaliere Ufficiale in the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy. In 1991 the Rotary Club made Father Tomasi a Paul Harris Fellow. In 1993 the Order Sons of Italy in America bestowed on Father Tomasi the Children of Columbus Award. In 1996 Father Tomasi was the recipient of the prestigious International Prize "Guido Durso", sponsored by the journal Politica Meridionalista of the University of Naples. Contact Father Tomasi at 202.420.8070 or email lidio.tomasi@yahoo.com. |
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Tomasi was appointed Pastor of Holy Rosary Church by his Provincial Superior
of the Missionaries of St. Charles-Scalabrinians and by His Eminence
Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, Archbishop of Washington, on 15 January 2006.
Prior to this assignment, Father Tomasi served for four years as Pastor of
the Church of St. Joseph located in Lower Manhattan in the heart of New York
City Chinatown, where he had an opportunity to test theories of immigrants
incorporation, multicultural congregations, and the institutional role of
churches in the adjustment process of immigrants. As Pastor of this
unique national Italian parish of Holy Rosary Church, located at the center
of one of the most influential cities in America, Father Tomasi will also
address changes and intergenerational transformations in the religious,
ethical and cultural values of Italian Americans and all Americans.