Pastor to serve in prominent role at annual parade

Msgr. John B. Gordon, pastor, St. Joseph Parish, Carteret, will serve as deputy grand marshal of the South Amboy St. Patrick’s Day Parade, March 19, 2023.

When told of his nomination as deputy grand marshal of the parade, Msgr. Gordon said he is “is very humbled and honored to serve as Deputy Grand Marshal and congratulates all honorees for this year’s parade and all things Irish.”

Msgr. Gordon, a native of South Plainfield who earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy at St. Pius X Seminary, Scranton University (Pa.), and a Master of Divinity degree at Christ the King Seminary, Buffalo. He was ordained to the priesthood May 18, 1985, at the Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi, Metuchen.

Msgr. Gordon served in the parishes of St. Bartholomew, East Brunswick; Guardian Angels, Edison; St. Magdalene de Pazzi, Flemington, and St. Mary, Perth Amboy.

For five years, he served as director, diocesan Hispanic Apostolate.

He served as chaplain for then-Bishop George Ahr High School, now St. Thomas the Aquinas High School, Edison; the now-closed St. Pius X High School, Piscataway, and the now-closed St. Mary High School, South Amboy.

He was installed as Chaplain to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI with the title of Monsignor Jan. 29, 2012.