WHAT IS A DIOCESAN PRIEST?
A diocesan priest can best be described as a PARISH PRIEST. Diocesan priests also serve in a variety of other capacities such as campus ministers, teachers or chaplains for hospitals, or prisons, but basically they are the priest who minister to the day-to-day needs of people in parishes. He is called a Diocesan priest because he commits himself to the service of God’s people within a definite geographical area called a diocese. A priest of the Diocese of Phoenix would expect to minister somewhere within the various counties which make up the Diocese. We have urban, suburban and rural ministries.
