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Phillip Bogacki Ordained
to the Priesthood ~ August 1, 2008
Phillip
Alan Bogacki was ordained to the priesthood
by Milwaukee Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan,
Friday, August 1, at 7 p.m. The Mass
was celebrated at the Cathedral of St.
John the Evangelist, 812 N. Jackson St.
A
native of Milwaukee, Bogacki together with
his brother Matthew and his parents Patricia
and Alan Bogacki, is a member of St. Charles
Borromeo Parish, Milwaukee. He attended
St. Romans Elementary School, Pius XI High
School and Marquette University where he
pursued a degree in Business Administration
with a major in Accounting.
His plans to pursue a Master’s Degree
in Accounting changed when he admitted that
the call to priesthood was strong enough
that he needed to pursue the possibility.
“I regularly met with Fr. Will Prospero, S.J., Jesuit
spiritual director and actively prayed and thought about the
possible call to priesthood,” Bogacki said.
So, in 2003 he applied to Saint Francis Seminary
and was accepted.
He had planned to stay at Saint Francis Seminary
to complete his education but after one year
was asked by Archbishop Dolan to continue
his theology studies at the American College
of the Immaculate Conception in Leuven, Belgium.
During the summers of 2005 and 2006, Bogacki
interned at St. Dominic Parish, Brookfield
with Fr. David Reith. In 2007, he spent
his summer internship at Ruth Hospice, Milwaukee.
Bogacki was ordained a Deacon by Archbishop
Dolan in Leuven on December 8, 2007.
Following his ordination to the priesthood,
Bogacki will spend one month as an associate
pastor at St. John Vianney parish in Brookfield,
then return to Leuven where he will spend
an additional year completing an S.T.L. in
systematic theology at the request of Archbishop
Dolan.
He will return to Milwaukee permanently and
be assigned to a parish in summer, 2009.
Bogacki also celebrated a Mass of Thanksgiving
at St. Charles Borromeo on Saturday, August
2nd. The Mass of Thanksgiving and his
ordination were open to the public.
Currently 34 men are studying for the priesthood
in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee at the college
and post-graduate levels. This is the
largest number in more than a decade.
In 2009 six men are expected to be ordained.
