50th Anniversary of Priesthood Celebration
for Father Lydio TOMASI, C.S. Pastor, Holy Rosary Church
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2012 @ 5:30 PM
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Father Tomasi was appointed Pastor of Holy Rosary Church by his Provincial Superior of the Missionaries of St. Charles-Scalabrinians and by His Eminence Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, Archbishop of Washington, on 15 January 2006. Prior to this assignment, Father Tomasi served for four years as Pastor of the Church of St. Joseph located in Lower Manhattan in New York City Chinatown, where he had an opportunity to test theories of immigrants incorporation, multicultural congregations, and the institutional role of churches in the adjustment process of immigrants.

He holds a 1983 Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University and has produced numerous articles and books on immigrants in general and the Italian American experience in particular.

Father Tomasi was born in Vincenza, Italy in 1938, where he attended public elementary school. He entered the Scalabrinian Seminary for high school in Brescia and college in Como. After his noviciate in Treviso, Father Tomasi attended the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome, where he earned his Philosophy and Theology Licenses and was ordained priest by Cardinal Confalonieri on 16 December 1962. His younger brother, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, is the Permanent Observer of the Holy See at the United Nations and Specialized Organizations in Geneva, Switzerland.

In 1985 the President of the Republic of Italy bestowed on Father Tomasi the title of Cavaliere Ufficiale in the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy. In 1991 the Rotary Club made Father Tomasi a Paul Harris Fellow. In 1993 the Order Sons of Italy in America bestowed on Father Tomasi the Children of Columbus Award. In 1996 Father Tomasi was the recipient of the prestigious International Prize "Guido Durso", sponsored by the journal Politica Meridionalista of the University of Naples.

You can Contact Father LydioTomasi at 202.420.8070