Dan Cirucci: Philly Archdiocese Names New Cultural Vicar

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Philly Archdiocese Names New Cultural Vicar

On February 29, 2016, Reverend Gregory J. Semeniuk, C.M. will begin service as Vicar for Multicultural Ministries in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The Vicar for Multicultural Ministries represents Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. to the various cultural and ethnic Catholic communities in the five-county Archdiocese of Philadelphia. He succeeds Reverend Bruce Lewandowski, C.SS.R., who held the post from June 2011 to December 2015. Until being assigned to other duties by the provincial of his order, the Redemptorist Fathers.

Father Semeniuk studied for the priesthood with the Eastern Province of the Congregation of the Mission, commonly known as the Vincentian Fathers. Following ordination in 1989, he served as Director of Students at Saint Joseph’s Preparatory Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. Beginning in 1993, he along with another Vincentian priest, began a bilingual evangelization ministry with an emphasis on Hispanic Catholics living on Long Island, New York.

In 2003, he was charged with opening a house of discernment for Hispanic candidates to the Vincentian Order. In 2004, he began doctoral studies in systematic theology at Weston Jesuit School of Theology at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. In May 2014, he defended his dissertation on the soteriology of Hans Urs von Balthasar. From August 2011 to August 2015, he served as Dean of Student and a faculty member at Saint John’s Seminary, Camarillo, California. Presently, he is the superior of the Vincentian Theologate in Philadelphia.

The Vicar for Cultural Ministries oversees the pastoral and administrative work undertaken by the Archdiocesan Offices for Hispanic Catholics, Black Catholics, and Pastoral Care for Migrants and Refugees. Additionally, this Vicar also ensures that pastors charged with ministry to various cultural and ethnic groups have the resources needed to do so effectively. Presently, there are 36 sites for Hispanic ministry, 15 for black Catholics, and 40 other multicultural ministries in the Archdiocese.

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He's been cited by the late Rush Limbaugh, quoted in the New York Times, featured at Real Clear Politics and Lucianne.com and interviewed across all media.

He's Dan Cirucci, the founder and editor-in chief of the Dan Cirucci Blog, a Save Jersey blog columnist, frequent guest on the Matt Rooney radio show and one of the most widely honored public relations professionals in his field. He's also been a public relations consultant to numerous organizations and individuals and hosted The Advocates on RVN-TV.

Inducted into the Philadelphia Public Relations Hall of Fame, for many years he served as a Lecturer in Corporate Communication at Penn State University. A former President of the Philadelphia Public Relations Association (PPRA) he has lectured at Rowan University, Temple University, The College of New Jersey and Arcadia University. He has conducted workshops on public relations for thousands of participants throughout the nation and has taught countless others the art of public speaking. He has also advised numerous lawyers, judges, public officials and political candidates.

Cirucci is a prolific writer and his op-ed pieces have appeared in the Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Courier-Post, Broad and Liberty and other print and online platforms.

A native of Camden NJ, Cirucci is a former President of the Philadelphia chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators. Cirucci served as Associate Executive Director of the Philadelphia Bar Association for nearly 30 years. He served as Chair of Penn State University's Professional Advisory Board for the Corporate Communication major at Penn State Abington and on the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Judicial Selection Commission.

He received his MA degree from Rowan University and his BA from Villanova University. He has been named a Distinguished Alumnus of Rowan's public relations program and received the E. A. "Wally" Richter Leadership Award, the highest honor from the National Association of Bar Executives' Communications Section. He has also been honored by numerous other local, state and national groups.

In his hometown of Camden, Cirucci taught fifth grade at the Ulysses Wiggins Elementary School named for the founder of the Camden NAACP. There he was one of the first teachers in the country to teach African-American history to inner city students. He later served as editor of a local weekly newspaper, as Assistant to the Township Manager of Cherry Hill Township and as Associate Director of Communications at the New Jersey State Bar Association.

Cirucci's passions include all things Italian, politics, the popular culture, books and authors, art, communication, music, theatre, movies, dining and travel.

He and his wife Carole have two grown children and seven grandchildren.

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