The Most Reverend Luis Rafael Zarama, Bishop of Raleigh, is pleased to convey the following official appointments and announcement:
Effective March 21, 2025
Reverend Cavine Okello, G.H.M., parochial vicar at Saint Joan of Arc Parish in Plymouth, is appointed administrator of the same during the absence for medical reasons of the pastor, Reverend Vic Subb, G.H.M.
Effective April 1, 2025
Reverend Joseph Pee Thuruthel Mathew, M.S., a member the Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette of the La Salette Matha Province, India, is appointed pastor of Saint Stephen the First Martyr Parish in Sanford.
Announcement
Bishop Luis Rafael Zarama expresses his sincere appreciation and congratulations to the Very Reverend Baiju Augustine Avittappally, M.S., V.F., dean of the Fayetteville Deanery and pastor of Saint Stephen the First Martyr Parish in Sanford, who has been elected provincial superior of his community. Father Baiju has already assumed his new ministry and will be moving to the provincial headquarters in India at the end of March.