Department of Clergy Services

The Department of Clergy Services is charged with the responsibility of providing human resources to the priests, deacons, and lay pastoral administrators of the Diocese of Oakland. This office oversees the offices of Priest Personnel, Deacon Personnel, Vocations/Seminarians, Clergy Sabbatical/Study Leave, Unassigned Clergy, AIDS Ministry, and Bishop's Liaison to Retired Priests and Bishop’s Representative to Eastern Catholics.

Director: Rev. Ray Breton       Contact:rbreton@oakdiocese.org

Vocations and Seminarians Office

The major activities for the Vocations and Seminarians Office are vocational promotional ministry, discernment and direction of seminarians in the formation program, maintaining contact and relations with seminaries and vocational apostolate groups, administrating the vocations office and its archives, and cooperating with the clergy services department, other diocesan offices, and national organizations on vocational projects. For those considering a religious vocation and for those simply seeking information on religious life, the Vocations and Seminarians Office provides informational materials and vocational discernment. For seminarians in formation, it provides moral and financial support, spiritual direction, and visitation. For vocation apostolates (i.e. Serra, Theresians), the Vocations and Seminarians Office plays a collaborative role, providing a liaison to the diocese.

As a result of these endeavors, the Vocations and Seminarians Office has reestablished systematic contact to those groups that seek it out, including collaboration with national organizations such as the National Religious Vocations Conference (NRVC) as well as seminaries in California and the Southwest. The Vocations and Seminarians Office has also organized its own archives and is beginning new projects in the area of vocational promotional ministry.

Director: Rev. Larry D'Anjou         Contact:ldanjou@oakdiocese.org