12.21.17 Assignments

RETIRING FROM ACTIVE MINISTRY
Reverend David F. Ricard’s request to retire from the active ministry of the Diocese of Providence and as Catholic Chaplain of Kent Hospital in Warwick has been approved effective January 1, 2018.

PERMANENT WITHDRAWAL FROM MINISTRY
The Reverend Peter J. Sheehan has voluntarily and permanently withdrawn from the active ministry of the Priesthood, effective September 27, 2017. His faculties to minister as a priest have been revoked; he is no longer permitted to function as a priest, wear clerical attire, or to present himself as a cleric in any manner. Father Sheehan has begun the canonical process to be dispensed from the obligation of the clerical state.