Conventual Franciscan priest
Fr. Gregory J. Kareta, OFM Conv., died shortly before midnight at Cabrillo Care Center in San Luis Obispo, California on October 4, 2006, the feast of our Holy Father St. Francis. Fr. Gregory had been receiving residential care for several years following his retirement from active ministry. Fr. Gregory (born Leonard Joseph) entered the world on January 22, 1924 in Detroit, Michigan, a son of Francis Kareta and his wife Appolonia (Pauline) Romieniecka, natives of Poland. Following military service during World War II, having sustained injuries related to an aerial mission over enemy territory, the future Father Gregory returned to his native Detroit area and engaged in the machinist trade. Responding to a vocation he entered the novitiate of the Order at Lake Forest, Illinois in 1948 and subsequently professed vows as a member of the Province of St. Bonaventure. Following studies at the Catholic University of America Fr. Gregory was ordained to the priesthood at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. in 1956. Having served in parochial assignments in Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin, Fr. Gregory entered a period of high school ministry in Torrance, California with his confreres in 1971. The substantial portion of Fr. Gregory's remaining ministerial years were spent as pastor of the Church of St. Paul in Pismo Beach, California (1971-1978) and later as pastor of the Church of St. Paul in Coalinga, California (1984-1996). To both parochial assignments Fr. Gregory brought his considerable talents in the area of physical construction and development. He contributed a great deal of time and energy to the building of a new church in Coalinga following an earthquake that had decimated the existing structure. Following Fr. Gregory's death a funeral liturgy was celebrated on October 11, 2006 with burial in the province cemetery in Arroyo Grande, California.
Fr. Gregory J. Kareta, OFM Conv., died shortly before midnight at Cabrillo Care Center in San Luis Obispo, California on October 4, 2006, the feast of our Holy Father St. Francis. Fr. Gregory had been receiving residential care for several years following his retirement from active ministry. Fr. Gregory (born Leonard Joseph) entered the world on January 22, 1924 in Detroit, Michigan, a son of Francis Kareta and his wife Appolonia (Pauline) Romieniecka, natives of Poland. Following military service during World War II, having sustained injuries related to an aerial mission over enemy territory, the future Father Gregory returned to his native Detroit area and engaged in the machinist trade. Responding to a vocation he entered the novitiate of the Order at Lake Forest, Illinois in 1948 and subsequently professed vows as a member of the Province of St. Bonaventure. Following studies at the Catholic University of America Fr. Gregory was ordained to the priesthood at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. in 1956. Having served in parochial assignments in Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin, Fr. Gregory entered a period of high school ministry in Torrance, California with his confreres in 1971. The substantial portion of Fr. Gregory's remaining ministerial years were spent as pastor of the Church of St. Paul in Pismo Beach, California (1971-1978) and later as pastor of the Church of St. Paul in Coalinga, California (1984-1996). To both parochial assignments Fr. Gregory brought his considerable talents in the area of physical construction and development. He contributed a great deal of time and energy to the building of a new church in Coalinga following an earthquake that had decimated the existing structure. Following Fr. Gregory's death a funeral liturgy was celebrated on October 11, 2006 with burial in the province cemetery in Arroyo Grande, California.
Conventual Franciscan priest
Fr. Gregory J. Kareta, OFM Conv., died shortly before midnight at Cabrillo Care Center in San Luis Obispo, California on October 4, 2006, the feast of our Holy Father St. Francis. Fr. Gregory had been receiving residential care for several years following his retirement from active ministry. Fr. Gregory (born Leonard Joseph) entered the world on January 22, 1924 in Detroit, Michigan, a son of Francis Kareta and his wife Appolonia (Pauline) Romieniecka, natives of Poland. Following military service during World War II, having sustained injuries related to an aerial mission over enemy territory, the future Father Gregory returned to his native Detroit area and engaged in the machinist trade. Responding to a vocation he entered the novitiate of the Order at Lake Forest, Illinois in 1948 and subsequently professed vows as a member of the Province of St. Bonaventure. Following studies at the Catholic University of America Fr. Gregory was ordained to the priesthood at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. in 1956. Having served in parochial assignments in Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin, Fr. Gregory entered a period of high school ministry in Torrance, California with his confreres in 1971. The substantial portion of Fr. Gregory's remaining ministerial years were spent as pastor of the Church of St. Paul in Pismo Beach, California (1971-1978) and later as pastor of the Church of St. Paul in Coalinga, California (1984-1996). To both parochial assignments Fr. Gregory brought his considerable talents in the area of physical construction and development. He contributed a great deal of time and energy to the building of a new church in Coalinga following an earthquake that had decimated the existing structure. Following Fr. Gregory's death a funeral liturgy was celebrated on October 11, 2006 with burial in the province cemetery in Arroyo Grande, California.
Fr. Gregory J. Kareta, OFM Conv., died shortly before midnight at Cabrillo Care Center in San Luis Obispo, California on October 4, 2006, the feast of our Holy Father St. Francis. Fr. Gregory had been receiving residential care for several years following his retirement from active ministry. Fr. Gregory (born Leonard Joseph) entered the world on January 22, 1924 in Detroit, Michigan, a son of Francis Kareta and his wife Appolonia (Pauline) Romieniecka, natives of Poland. Following military service during World War II, having sustained injuries related to an aerial mission over enemy territory, the future Father Gregory returned to his native Detroit area and engaged in the machinist trade. Responding to a vocation he entered the novitiate of the Order at Lake Forest, Illinois in 1948 and subsequently professed vows as a member of the Province of St. Bonaventure. Following studies at the Catholic University of America Fr. Gregory was ordained to the priesthood at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. in 1956. Having served in parochial assignments in Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin, Fr. Gregory entered a period of high school ministry in Torrance, California with his confreres in 1971. The substantial portion of Fr. Gregory's remaining ministerial years were spent as pastor of the Church of St. Paul in Pismo Beach, California (1971-1978) and later as pastor of the Church of St. Paul in Coalinga, California (1984-1996). To both parochial assignments Fr. Gregory brought his considerable talents in the area of physical construction and development. He contributed a great deal of time and energy to the building of a new church in Coalinga following an earthquake that had decimated the existing structure. Following Fr. Gregory's death a funeral liturgy was celebrated on October 11, 2006 with burial in the province cemetery in Arroyo Grande, California.
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