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Diaconate Formation

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Diaconate admission

The current diaconate formation class, seen here Sept. 9, includes 60 men from around the diocese. They meet one weekend a month at St. John Center in Little Rock with their wives for classes.

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Sixty men seeking to be deacons begin their formation

Bishop Anthony B. Taylor ordains Deacon Tom Parks of Rogers during an ordination Mass June 25, 2022, at St. Vincent de Paul Church in Rogers.

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63 men chosen for next diaconate formation class

Bishop Taylor stands with the 20 men who were ordained as deacons June 25 at St. Vincent de Paul Church in Rogers. An earlier ordination Mass was held June 11 in Little Rock, making this the largest deacon class ever for the Diocese of Little Rock.

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Bishop Taylor ordains largest class of deacons ever for state

Marc Rios, deacon candidate and resident manager at St. John Manor, prepares the altar for daily Mass at Morris Hall in the St. John Center, May 18.

News/Vocations 2022

Pandemic didn’t stop diaconate preparations for 46 men

Pastor Father Mario Jacobo (from left) and deacon candidates Jaime Flores and Brad Brown stock their new food pantry in the basement of St. Boniface Church in Fort Smith Sept. 23.

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Fort Smith parishes finding more hungry people to feed

From the Bishop

Ministry of priests, deacons is a life lived for others

From the Bishop

Jesus’ roots like ours: some boring, some bizarre

Bishop Anthony B. Taylor and Father Erik Pohlmeier gather with deacon candidates and their wives Sept. 8 outside Morris Hall at St. John Center in Little Rock.

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Men move forward toward their diaconate ordination

Deacon Bud Baldwin greets parishioners after Mass Oct. 22 at St. Joseph Church in Fayetteville. Baldwin, who also serves at St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish, was ordained to the permanent diaconate for the Diocese of Little Rock in 1998.

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In 50 years, permanent diaconate a ‘raging success’ in U.S.