Our OCADL President, Deacon John Vallely has recently been appointed by Bishop Ronald Fabbro as Director of Permanent Deacons for the Diocese of London for a 5 year term. As well, Deacon John will continue as Director of the Permanent Deacon Formation and Study Program.

In addition, Deacon Vallely will collaborate with both the Rector of St. Peter’s Seminary and the Executive Director of St. Peter’s Institute for Catholic Formation, with whom he has developed a “bridging program” between the permanent diaconate and the certificate program in lay pastoral formation.

Deacon Vallely was ordained Permanent Deacon Deacon for the Diocese of London in November, 2005. Prior to commencing his formation for the Permanent Diaconate, he received an MDiv from St Peter’s Seminary in 2001. He is assigned to Holy Family Parish for his ministry of Word and ministry of Sacrament. He is Chair of the Board of the London Affordable Housing Foundation.

Born in Hamilton, Deacon John earned an Honours BA in Psychology from Western, then graduated from Medicine in 1972 and did post-graduate training in Urology. He retired in 2008 as staff Urologist at St. Joseph’s Health Care, London and Associate Professor of Surgery (Urology) in UWO’s Faculty of Medicine. Deacon John has been married to Susan since 1970 and they have two adult sons, Paul and Alan.

Please pray for our brother John and for his ministries – London is a fortunate Diocese!