Welcome to the Office of Vocations!

Please visit our new website:
www.HearTheCall.org: Saint John Fisher Seminary

Every Disciple has a Vocation!

This is the vision of the Office of Vocations. We take our mission very seriously: to help the people of God of the Diocese of Bridgeport to fulfill the mission of Christ as disciples of the Lord, and find the specific life through which they will fulfill His mission, their vocation. Every disciple has a vocation, whether Married Life, Priesthood, Religious Life or a Single Consecrated Life. By teaching about and helping and nurturing all the vocations, we hope to help build a missionary context within the Diocese of Bridgeport, where every disciple will seek to fulfill the mission of Christ every day.

We work in cooperation with the Catholic Schools, Religious Education Programs, and Youth Ministry especially through the Catholic Schools Office and Office of Christian Formation of the diocese. We serve not only priestly and religious vocations, but help Marriage and Family and Single vocations fulfill their calling and consecration as well!

Men and women will find support at the Office of Vocations primarily for the discernment of vocations to the priestly life for men and religious life for men and women through the resources of our office and what is provided through this website. We hope to serve every man and woman who desire to seriously discern what God's plan is for their lives, which is simply what the greatest joy of their soul is.

For the Priesthood of the Diocese of Bridgeport we are helping people hear God's call who are faithful and zealous Catholic young men between the ages of 18 and 40 who feel called by the Lord to serve as parish priests in the Diocese of Bridgeport. After one or more years of initial formation at the St. John Fisher Seminary, seminarians complete four years of graduate theological studies at Catholic University (Washington D.C.), Mount Saint Mary's Seminary (Maryland), North American College (Rome), Pope John XXIII Seminary (Massachusetts), or St. Joseph Seminary (New York).

Over the last 11 years, from 1995 to 2005, the Diocese of Bridgeport ordained 53 men as diocesan priests. There are presently 24 men in formation as seminarians of the Diocese of Bridgeport.

The Saint John Fisher Seminary is a house discernment, spiritual formation and study operated by the Diocese of Bridgeport in Stamford, CT. Founded in 1989, the Fisher Residence welcomes both graduate and undergraduate students who wish to discern a possible priestly vocation. Graduate students complete a Pre-Theology program in philosophy, theology and classical languages, taught at the Fisher Residence and accredited by St. John's University in New York. Undergraduate students live at the Fisher Residence while pursuing their college degrees at Fordham University in Bronx, NY, Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT or other area schools.

For more information, please contact us!

Director of Vocations
Father Peter J. Lynch
(203) 322-5331
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Assistant Directors of Vocations
Father Joseph A. Marcello
(203) 378-9378

Father Leonel Medieros
(203) 368-6777

Resident Spiritual Director
Father Nicholas A. Cirillo
(203) 322-5331
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Rector
Father Joseph Linck
(203) 322-5331
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