Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, May 22, 1994                   TAG: 9405220091
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: E-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Cody Lowe
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CATHOLIC PRIESTS GET PARISH ASSIGNMENTS

Parke's move was one of 35 assignments in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Richmond announced Saturday by its bishop, the Most Rev. Walter F. Sullivan.

Parke, 55, will be succeeded by the Rev. Gregory R. Kandt, 38, who has been parochial vicar at Our Lady of Lourdes in Richmond for the past year.

The assignments are effective June 6.

The Rev. Wayne L. Ball, 33, who has been serving as administrator of St. Gerard's Church in Roanoke since March, has been named pastor there. He replaces the Rev. John D. Boddie who is on a six-month sabbatical.

The Rev. Brian Rafferty, 46 and newly ordained to the priesthood Saturday, becomes pastor of St. Mary's parish in Wytheville and St. Edward's in Pulaski. He succeeds the Rev. James Grealish, who has been pastor there since 1983 and is taking an educational sabbatical.

In St. Paul and Lebanon, the Rev. Frank Ernst, a Jesuit, will become pastor of St. Theresa's parish and Good Shepherd parish. He succeeds the Rev. Thomas Charters, a priest of the Glenmary religious order.

The Rev. James Fosnot, 30, who also was ordained Saturday, is the new parochial vicar at St. Andrew's in Roanoke.

And the Rev. Phillip Higgins, 57, who has been pastor of St. Victoria parish in Hurt since 1985, will become parochial vicar of Our Lady of Lourdes in Richmond.