{"id":298614,"date":"2026-10-02T21:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T21:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298614\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T21:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T21:14:10","slug":"bishop-mark-eckman-to-ordain-5-men-as-transitional-deacons-in-catholic-diocese-of-pittsburgh-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298614\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Mark Eckman to ordain 5 men as transitional deacons in Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(File Photo of the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh Logo)<\/p>\n<p>Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News<\/p>\n<p>(Pittsburgh, PA) Bishop Mark Eckman of the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh will ordain five men as transitional deacons during a 10 a.m. Mass tomorrow at Pittsburgh\u2019s St. Thomas More Church.<\/p>\n<p>The five candidates for ordination are Antonino \u201cNino\u201d Castellano, Colin Kulmoski, Peter Mallampalli, Thach Ngoc Nguyen and Thanh Tung Nguyen.<\/p>\n<p>Transitional deacons represent men that are in the final stage of preparation for ordination to the priesthood.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the five candidates has completed at least six years of priestly formation, which\u00a0 encompasses studies in prayer, pastoral service, philosophy, spiritual formation and theology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(File Photo of the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh Logo) Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News (Pittsburgh, PA) Bishop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-298614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}