Rev. John Maria Devaney, O.P.

Fr. John Maria Devaney, OP  is a Dominican Friar of the Province of St. Joseph.   After ordination in 2015,  Fr. John served as a hospital chaplain, including on the front lines of the Covid-19 crisis, on the Upper Eastside of Manhattan as part of the Dominican Health Care Ministry until summer of 2022.   From late summer of 2022 until arriving at St. Pius V on October 28th (the Feast of St. Jude), Fr. John was stationed in Hanover, NH at St. Dennis Parish and Aquinas House Catholic Ministry at Dartmouth College. Also, for almost a decade, Fr. John has also hosted a weekly SiriusXM satellite radio show entitled “Word to Life” on The Catholic Channel.  On a special note, since the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy, Fr. John Maria serves Pope Francis and the Church as a Missionary of Mercy with the commission to be “living sign of the Father’s welcome to all those in search of his forgiveness…” (Misericordiae Vultus #18).

Fr. John originally hails from Clinton, NJ and is the youngest of three children. He attended Emerson College in Boston and worked in radio broadcasting and concert/music festival producing for a decade and half before entering the Dominican Order. 

"This is my first time in my Dominican life assigned as a pastor of a parish. I am delighted to serve God and his people at the Parish of St. Pius V as a priest of Jesus Christ and a son of St. Dominic. I am also excited to follow in the footsteps of a century plus of my fellow friars who have shepherded before me. Let us look to our patron, Pope St. Pius V, and stay close to Our Lady and her Rosary in prayer and complete abandonment to Divine Providence...in...Providence!!!"