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Toronto, May 27, 2020 : In two of the more memorable and elegantly simple ceremonies in recent history, Terrence Prendergast, SJ, Archbishop of Ottawa-Cornwall, ordained Christopher Kellerman, SJ (UCS), Trevor Rainwater, SJ (UMI), Oshish Tirkey, SJ (DAR), Jean Francky Guerrier, SJ (CAN), and Adam Lalonde, SJ (CAN), to the diaconate and Kevin Kelly, SJ (CAN), to the priesthood.

Due to the province of Ontario’s Covid-19 guidelines restricting gatherings to no more than five people, the ordinations took place in two separate live-streamed Masses in the morning and the afternoon of Saturday, May 23rd in the empty Church of Our Lady of Lourdes in Toronto. Both the ordaining prelate and the ordinandi wore masks and gloves during the ordination ritual and observed appropriate physical distance whenever possible.

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